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“Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.”

Evil Beauty Setting Settings Ivory

Author:Theocritus

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”

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Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.”

Evil Beauty Virtue Devil Empty Hypocrisy Trunks

Book:Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.”

Self Seems Action Spirit Evil Beauty Darkness Vices Improvement Ruins Handsome Perplexed Evil Spirits Bad Actions

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”

World Evil Left Beauty Bent Ugliness Markers

Author:Thornton Wilder

“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”

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Author:Richard Cecil

“Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.”

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Book:Dreamthorp

Source: Dreamthorp

“Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.”

Source: Healology

“Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn't ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the weapons in their arsenal. Evil must, after all, appear attractive if it's going to be tempting, and from there it's only a small step further to the conclusion that feminine beauty is inherently wicked.”

Desire Evil Women Beauty

Book:The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

Source: The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia