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Quotes About Beauty

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.
~ John Dowland
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).
~ Cybill Shepherd
Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.
~ Loren Eiseley
Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.
~ Mordecai Richler
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
~ Austin O'Malley
When it's dark enough men see stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
~ Charles Spurgeon
She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
~ Confucius
With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger.
~ Gackt
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
~ Caitlin Moran
That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast
~ Drake
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
~ Edward Abbey
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
~ Lord Dunsany
Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.
~ Marilyn Monroe
when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.
~ Neal Stephenson
That is the kind of beauty I was trying to get you to see," Orolo told me. "Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.
~ Neal Stephenson
Moira wished she spoke better Russian so that she could talk to Tekla about her ideas regarding appearance and grooming. The facial scars put her well outside the norms of feminine beauty and she had doubled down by electing to keep the buzz cut. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, she was, to put it bluntly, kind of hot. Moira hated to say it. But hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.
~ Neal Stephenson
The landscape of the suburban night has much weird beauty if you just look.
~ Neal Stephenson
Then, just for a blessed few hours, he had climbed out of that chopper into the high, cold, piney air of Bhutan, and gone for a ramble in the king's Land Rover, and hiked up a misty mountain that had struck him as being straight from a 1970s album cover. And he had done some introspection about the fact that he couldn't even take such a lovely place at face value but only liken it to such pop culture references.
~ Neal Stephenson
Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea.
~ Neal Stephenson
What do you think Orolo saw, when he looked out thus?" Fraa Jad asked. "He was a great appreciator of beauty and loved to look at the mountains from the starhenge," I said. "You think he saw beauty? That is a safe answer, since it is beautiful. But what was he thinking about? What connections did the beauty enable him to perceive?" "I couldn't possibly answer that." "Don't answer it. Ask it.
~ Neal Stephenson
us—I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top—yet possessing a volcanick profile foretelling explosions—
~ Neal Stephenson