Quotes: beauty
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Stendhal
French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle)
1783-1842
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Plato
Greek philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
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I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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