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Beauty |
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Quotations
 | If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 16 likes |
 | Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 12 likes |
 | Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 11 likes |
 | It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | How beauty varies in nature and art! In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 8 likes |
 | From a distance, everything is beautiful. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 7 likes |
 | Love is a great beautifier. — Louisa May Alcott, 1923-1888, American writer 6 likes |
 | Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 6 likes |
 | If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 6 likes |
 | It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 5 likes |
 | For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
 | A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 5 likes |
 | By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 5 likes |
 | A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
 | There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast,” that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes |
 | The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 4 likes |
| The bizarre is a necessary ingredient in beauty. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 4 likes |
 | The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 4 likes |
| The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 4 likes |
 | Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 4 likes |
 | Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | Even as a cow she was lovely. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 4 likes |
| The lion is most handsome when looking for food. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Beauty tricks the flesh to get permission to reach the soul. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 3 likes |
 | We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 3 likes |
| Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
| Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 3 likes |
 | There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 3 likes |
 | Nothing beautiful can be summarized. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes |
 | Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
 | The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 3 likes |
| Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 3 likes |
| Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 3 likes |
| Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.” — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | Rare is the union of beauty and purity. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 2 likes |
| At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
| Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
| The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
 | What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 2 likes |
 | I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | Beauty will be convulsive or it won't be. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 1 likes |
 | Beauty is a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. |
 | Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else. |
 | Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. |
 | Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. |
 | Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. |
 | What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. |
| Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. |
 | Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty. |
 | Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. |
| Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. |
 | She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. |
 | Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. |
| Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. |
 | The greatest power in the world is the youth and beauty of women. |
| Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. |
 | When you hear what a pretty woman says, it's that she's not really pretty. |
 | The human soul needs beauty more than bread. |
 | Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. |
 | Good taste is the conscience of the beautiful and the beautiful is nothing but the conscience of the good taste. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | A beautiful woman dies twice. |
 | I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. |
 | When a woman is beautiful, don't tell her she is beautiful, because she already knows that; tell her she's smart because she hopes to be. |
 | Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves. |
| Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. |
 | Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. |
 | Beauty is a promise of happiness. |
| I love her beauty, but I fear her mind. |
| There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. |
| What is really beautiful must always be true. |
| True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. |
| Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. |
 | Look around. Look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere, you only have to look to see it. |
 | The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 2 likes |
 | Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is. |
 | If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. |
Funny Quotes
| There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | For all women silence is beauty. Γυναιξί πάσαις κόσμον η σιγή φέρει. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 13 likes |
| Shyness is the citadel of beauty. Αιδώς του κάλλους ακρόπολις. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 9 likes |
 | Beauty is better than any recommendation letter. Το κάλλος παντός επιστολίου συστατικώτερον. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | It’s not beauty but character that pleases husbands. Ού το κάλλος, ω γύναι, αλλ’ αρεταί τέρπουσι τους ξυνευνέτας. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromache 7 likes |
| Your god does not give good luck to beauty. Ου γαρ ες κάλλος τύχας ο δαίμων δίδωσι. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Trojan Women 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. 5 likes |
 | Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Magic Mirror on the Wall. Who is the fairest one of all? — from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 5 likes |
