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“The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.”

Men Ideas Self Faces Form Beauty Fashion Rounds Features Gestures Penetrate Garments Attire

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.”

Littles Two Eye Asks Answers Beauty Mouths Female Rounds Brown Flats Yellow Coming Out Belly Toads

Author:Voltaire

“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”

Has Beens Literature Party Beauty Study Fool Fruit Rounds Mood

Author:Jean Paul

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

Mind Body Literature Women Beauty Taught Shapes Prison Rounds Feminist Womens Rights Cages Infancy Roaming Women Rights Vindication Women Right Infancy Is Body Shapes

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“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

“The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.”

Faces Stars Sound Born Secret Beauty Ears Rounds Dear Midnight Murmuring Secret Places

Book:Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.”

Years Loses Beauty Standing Let Me Harder Rounds Boxes Bread Charm Contests Ballots Laundry

Author:Rose Schneiderman

“Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”

World Long Remember Desire Beauty Arms Presses Rounds Forgotten Wraps Faded Loveliness

Book:James Joyce The Dover Reader

Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader