Perfect Beauty Quotes

• Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Sight, Perfect, Simplicity

  "Journal of Delacroix". Book by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p.252, 1980.

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• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Beautiful, Memorable

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.25

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• In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Air, Self, Perfect

  George H. Scithers, P. D Cacek, H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction”, p.143, Wildside Press LLC

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• And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

  Gail Carriger

  Perfect, Boring

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• Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Perfect, Consoling, Awe

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.66

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• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Creativity, Character, Rough Edges

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• What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

  Julie Burchill

  Mirrors, Perfect, Sap

  "Why Photoshop is a feminist's best friend" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2008.

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• I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
  [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
  Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Beautiful, Perfect

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• Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Degrees, Sin

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.421

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• O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
  The poets labouring all their days
  To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
  Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Flower, Garden, Perfect

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beauty, Kindness, Law

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 20,

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• How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

  Erin O'Connor

  Perfect, Confusing, Awful

  "Muse flash" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2003.

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• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

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• There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.

  Pat Conroy

  Betrayal, Integrity, Perfect

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

  William T. Vollmann

  Drinking, Book, Reading

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.510, Penguin

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• She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

  Johnny Depp

  Smart, Perfect, Kind

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• The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.

  Mary Oliver

  Beautiful, Dog, Grateful

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• The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Beauty, Truth, Perfect

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• Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Hero, Perfect

  Ned Rorem (1974). “The final diary, 1961-1972”

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• Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Health, Perfect

  Essays on Men and Manners 'On Taste'

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• There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of a catalogue. This is not a world of perfect beauty. I wanted it to be the real world of the 1960s. I know that some women walked out of the house without lipstick.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Art, Real, Player

  Source: collider.com

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