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Quotes About Beauty

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
~ Walter de La Mare
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
~ William Shakespeare
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
~ Salma Hayek
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.
~ Anais Nin
And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
~ Anne Rice
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
~ Arthur Golden
I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.
~ Barbara La Marr
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.
~ Rosa Bonheur
Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
~ RuPaul
I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
~ Ryan Gosling
The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
~ Sophocles
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
~ Stuart Weitzman
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
~ William Morris
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
~ William Shakespeare
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
~ Yoko Ono
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
~ James McAvoy
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
~ James Russell Lowell
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.
~ Dieter Rams
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
~ Euripides
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.
~ Francis Thompson
The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
~ Francois Mauriac