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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Beauty Quotes and Sayings 9

BEAUTY QUOTES (9)



Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
~Bryant H. McGill

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
~Xenophon

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
~David Hume

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
~Salma Hayek

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
~Nikolai Gogol

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
~D. H. Lawrence

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
~Andre Breton

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
~Havelock Ellis

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
~Imelda Marcos

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
~Nikos Kazantzakis

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
~St. Jerome

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.
~Julia Roberts

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
~Sydney Smith

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.
~Jean Paul

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
~Oliver Stone

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
~Hannah Arendt

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
~Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
~Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
~Charles Baudelaire

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
~George Sand

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.
~Joan Crawford

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
~Helen Rowland

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
~Anne Lamott

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
~Lord Chesterfield

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
~Oliver Goldsmith

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
~John Dryden

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
~Donald Norman

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley



Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
~Henry Drummond

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
~Halle Berry

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
~David Hume

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
~Pope Paul VI

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
~Jane Smiley

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
~Wallace Stevens

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
~Charles Baudelaire

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
~Sarah Bernhardt

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~Naomi Wolf

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
~Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
~Christina Aguilera

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
~Vernon Howard

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
~Anthony Kiedis

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
~James Hillman

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
~Sarah Bernhardt

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
~George Byron

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
~Paul Getty

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
~Anne Lamott

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
~Louis Kahn

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