Best beauty & fine Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

May Found Causes United Beauty Fine Perfection Connected Features Nobility Coexist Baseness Incongruity Plainness

Author:Herbert Spencer

“How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.”

World Beauty Figures Fine Monstrosity

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.”

Beauty Fine Fingers Purity Crystals

Book:Fredolfo: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

Source: Fredolfo: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

“The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.”

Men Spirit Names Beauty Fine Genius Standing Mystical

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

“The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'”

“I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.”

Beauty Too Much Fine Finished Brilliant Unfinished Fine Things

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”

Girl Quality Beauty Marriage Fine Husband My Girl

Book:Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts

Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts

“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

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