Best beauty & praise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”

Needs Law Perfect Beauty Kindness Praise Modesty Loving Kindness Perfect Beauty

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.”

Ideas Faces Form Beauty Novel Praise Shoulders Snow Nonsense Pairs Fragile Delicate Ruined Trash Wasps Dainty

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”

Way Made Beautiful Asks Beauty Praise

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.”

Beauty Criticism Praise Critics Necks Sarcasm Sarcastic Hangman Criticism And Praise

Author:Eli Wallach

“Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."”

Wells Said Two Whole Moments Pain Heaven Beauty Heard Sea Bears Praise Rounds Heavy Neighbor Passing Passings That Moment Distress Pearls Oysters Crabs No Pain Haughty Passing By

Author:Khalil Gibran

“If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.”

Ifs Women Term Animal Beauty Example Praise Mathematics Math Circles Mathematical Women Beauty Parallelogram

Book:Gulliver's Travels

Source: Gulliver's Travels

“Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.”

Needs Art Beautiful Form Natural Beauty Example Objects Praise Works Of Art True Beauty

Author:Marcus Aurelius

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