Beauty Quotes - Page 10

• Beauty is less important than quality.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Important, Quality

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• Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

  Cindy Margolis

  Thinking, Inner Beauty

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• Expression is the mystery of beauty.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Expression, Mystery

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• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  H. G. Wells

  Heart, Beholder, Inner Beauty

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• Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.146

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  When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

  John Muir

  Nature, Stars, Space

  Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

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• Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Revolution for the Hell of It (1968).

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Art, Science

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

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• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Sunshine, Rays

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

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• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Past, Beautiful Women, Being Beautiful

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.31, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Beauty is only skin deep.

  Thomas Overbury

  Inspirational, Skins, Imperfect

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Truth, Philosophy, Creative

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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• Dear God! 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

  Art, Flesh, Dear God

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• I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

  Goldie Hawn

  Confidence, Running, Being Yourself

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• Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

  Charles Lamb

  Reality

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• I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

  Christy Turlington

  Beauty Comes From Within, Feels, Sincerely

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• There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Sadness, Elements, Delight

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.275

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• Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Death, Causes, Eternity

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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Ugly

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17

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• We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

  Plotinus

  Order, Ugliness

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.545, Delphi Classics

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• Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

  Louis Orr

  Laughter, Pain, Loneliness

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

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• Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, States, Knows

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Integrity reveals beauty.

  Thomas Leonard

  Integrity

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• The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Careers, Abuse

  1962 Ship of Fools, pt.3.

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