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Quotes About Beauty

The object therefore of this mixed passion, which we call love, is the beauty of the sex . Men are carried to the sex in general, as it is the sex, and by the common law of nature; but they are attached to particulars by personal beauty .
~ Edmund Burke
Beden hiçbir engebe göstermeyen ve gözü bozmayan 'pürüzsüz yüzeyler' içerdiÄŸinde 'narin' olur.
~ Edmund Burke
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. Blushing has little less power; and modesty in general, which is a tacit allowance of imperfection, is itself considered as an amiable quality, and certainly heightens every other that is so.
~ Edmund Burke
Who ever said we ought to love a fine woman, or even any of these beautiful animals which please us? Here to be affected, there is no need of the concurrence of our will.
~ Edmund Burke
There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty
~ Edmund Morris
Do keep these trees, keep all the wonderful scenery of this wonderful state unmarred by vandalism or the folly of man.
~ Edmund Morris
Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise.
~ Edmund Spenser
You're universally liked because you're such a black hole in space. You don't have any real traits. You're sympa , at least as much as a narcissist can be, but that means nothing. You're beautiful and everybody projects onto you what they're looking for, which is easy to do since you don't stand for anything definite. You're a black hole in space.
~ Edmund White
There's something mystic and beautiful in the ineffable.
~ Edmund White
Real men don't moisturise.
~ Edmund White
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
~ Edna Ferber
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
~ Edna Ferber
Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated..., and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.
~ Edna Ferber
I'm not much to look at, replied Elizabeth, but I'm beautiful inside.
~ Edna Ferber
Do writers have to be such monsters in order to create? I believe that they do. It is a paradox that while wrestling with language to capture the human condition they become more callous, and cut off from the very human traits which they so glistening depict. There can be no outer responsibility, no interruptions, only the ongoing inner drone, rhythmic, insistent, struggling to make a living moment of both beauty and austerity.
~ Edna O'Brien
wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.
~ Edna O'Brien
moonlight in Mayo" time.
~ Edna O'Brien
The flutter of the leaves brought on your trance. Hundreds of thousands of sycamore leaves all obeying the same wind, their wide green palms opening then tightening, letting in and keeping out the light, changing the prospect from outdoor to indoor, forever altering. It was the most lonesome hour just before dusk with all the colors going, all the streamers , the pinks and reds, and violets and indigos and blues, the lovely laneways of vanquishing light.
~ Edna O'Brien
A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks his own finger, rubs the blood onto the scab, smears it all over the patient
~ Edna O'Brien
We have a gray stone house with stone slates on the roof and wooden beams inside, and whitewashed bumpety walls and pots for flowers everywhere; the boards creak and he loves me, and there is something about having a child and being in a valley, and being loved, that is more marvelous than anything you or I ever knew about in our flittery days.
~ Edna O'Brien
Her eyes opened. They were like petals submerged in tiny bowls of unchanged water.
~ Edward Anderson
Kecantikan adalah sesuatu yang dapat diapresiasi oleh orang lain.
~ Edward de Bono
The Baron told her that only art meant anything.
~ Edward Gorey
he details everything around the beauty and excitement, which is enough to evoke it again for each of us, in the mind's eye, the gut, the secret heart, or wherever one's most vivid, passionate, lyric, and lavender images are stored. - Tobi Tobias, Balletgorey
~ Edward Gorey