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Quotes About Beauty

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
~ Camille Paglia
There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.
~ Joan Slonczewski
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
~ William Watson
For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
~ Edwidge Danticat
We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.
~ Frederick Lenz
I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?
~ David Ignatow
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
~ William Blake
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
~ Ian Mcewan
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are against the beauty and fashion fascist regime that gets hyped in America and all over the world. "The Beautiful People" is NOT against people who style themselves in whichever way.
~ Unknown
Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
~ Emily Dickinson
When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.
~ Halle Berry
I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.
~ Colin Firth
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
~ Milan Kundera
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
~ Shirley MacLaine
I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
~ Gore Vidal
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.
~ Joyce Giraud
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
~ D. H. Lawrence
In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.
~ Paul Madonna
Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.
~ Helen Kieran Reilly
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning