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Quotes About Beauty

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.
~ Frank Zappa
I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I'm joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I'm glad I'm the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.
~ Franny Billingsley
I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.
~ Franny Billingsley
A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.
~ Franny Billingsley
Darling! Had they darlinged each other when they were here? I imagined them, magnificent on horseback, tossing darlings to and fro.
~ Franny Billingsley
That girl was gone; wolfgirl had returned. Wolfgirl, who was leaf dance and moon claw and tooth gleam. When Jupiter sizzled the air with lightning bolts, she caught them on the fly. "Nice throw, Jupiter!" "Nice catch, wolfgirl!" Her mouth was a cavern of stars.
~ Franny Billingsley
I hadn't noticed the tiles in the regular-size house. They were painted to look like flowers. I saw the dollhouse better than I'd seen the real room. That was because it was small and concentrated. Gentleman Jack had told me about distillation, how you take a liquid and boil it so that at the end there's less liquid but it's purer. It's more truly its own self.
~ Franny Billingsley
Wax was good. Wax was soft. Wax couldn't shatter like china. Wax was as beautiful as china.
~ Franny Billingsley
En nuestra especie, la atracción por la juventud tiene sentido debido a nuestro vínculo de pareja que conduce a familias estables. Las mujeres jóvenes están más disponibles y son más valiosas por la larga vida reproductiva que tienen por delante. De ahí el eterno anhelo femenino por parecer joven a base de bótox, implantes, estiramientos faciales y demás.
~ Frans de Waal
I stop there, for who can tell me what beauty is?
~ Frantz Fanon
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty in every age of life really never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka
She looked like, if you bit her, milk and honey would flow from her.
~ Franz Kline
You gave me in secret one thing to perceive, the tall blue starry strangeness of being here at all.
~ Franz Wright
The Poem" It was like getting a love letter from a tree Eyes closed forever to find you– There is a life which if I could have it I would have chosen for myself from the beginning
~ Franz Wright
The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks
~ Fred Beck
I studied his proud, finely carved face, and indeed no lover could have watched Helen of Troy more intently or could have been more convinced of his own inferiority.
~ Fred Uhlman
No, la vera bellezza ha bisogno di silenzio. Una sola parola può distruggerla. La bellezza, la grande bellezza, può essere dolorosa: ci sono momenti in cui si vuole solo piangere, e il rumore di una voce umana, di una macchina, di una radio, perfino il gracchiare di un corvo possono essere tanto distruttivi quanto un sasso scagliato in uno stagno pieno di ninfee rosse e bianche.
~ Fred Uhlman
Still, I mustn't grumble: I have more friends than enemies and there are moments when I am almost glad to be alive — when I watch the sun set and the moon rise, or see snow on mountain tops.
~ Fred Uhlman
Inexorably accurate translation from Latin provides a training in observation, analysis, judgment, evaluation, and a sense of linguistic form, clarity, and beauty which is excellent training in the shaping of one's own English expression," asserted Frederic Wheelock.
~ Frederic M. Wheelock
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green