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Quotes About Beauty

Beauty would save the world.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.
~ Chic Murray
Beauty like hers is genius.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
~ Ned Rorem
Style is to see beauty in modesty.
~ Andree Putman
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
~ Joseph Campbell
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
~ Simone Weil
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
~ Victor Hugo
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
~ Dolly Parton
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
~ Euripides
Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
~ Louie Schwartzberg
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
~ Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.
~ Cliff Richard
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.
~ William Blake
... to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.
~ Theophile Gautier
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.
~ Mary Renault
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
~ Emily Prager
Beauty is an opinion not a fact.
~ Hayden Panettiere