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Quotes About Beauty

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
~ Mark Twain
Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!
~ Liya Kebede
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.
~ Unknown
Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.
~ Philip José Farmer
. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.
~ John Milton
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
~ Eugene Delacroix
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.
~ Bob Hartley
Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
~ Roger Scruton
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
~ Walter J. Phillips
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
~ George Eliot
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
~ Walt Whitman
Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.
~ John Godfrey Saxe
...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.
~ John Keats
A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.
~ Friedrich Schiller
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?
~ Rumi
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.
~ Winslow Homer
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
~ Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
~ Mike Figgis
When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
~ Adriana Trigiani
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
~ Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can't bear those empty, staring eyes.
~ Charles Beaumont