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Category: Beauty and Ugliness

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1. "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

2. "Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."

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Other categories: Time and Passing

3. "Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."

Jean-Luc Godard

4. "Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

Paul Gauguin, "Intimate Journals"

Other categories: Art and Culture

5. "Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

William Hazlitt, "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

6. "The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body."

Fulton John Sheen, "Peace of Soul"

Other categories: Good and Evil

7. "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Other categories: Youth and Age

8. "Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life."

Mason Cooley

Other categories: Richness and Money

9. "Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning."

P.J. O`Rourke

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

10. "Beauty is only the promise of happiness."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Other categories: Happiness

11. "The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

12. "Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."

George Brossin Méré

Other categories: Woman and Man

13. "What is really beautiful must always be true."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "Armance"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

14. "An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Other categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

15. "The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."

Charles Baudelaire

Other categories: Art and Culture

16. "Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

John Barrymore

Other categories: Love -:- Woman and Man

17. "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

Albert Camus, "Notebooks"

18. "The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

19. "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."

Ray Evans, "To Each His Own"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

20. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature."

Gérard De Nerval

Other categories: Nature and Animals

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21. "Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."

John Ruskin

Other categories: Nature and Animals

22. "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

Gaston Bachelard

23. "The human face is the organic seat of beauty."

Eliza Farnham, "Woman and Her Era"

Other categories: Human

24. "It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that’s not true. There are times when it depresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman."

Catherine Deneuve

25. "You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Anouk Aimée

Other categories: Youth and Age

26. "Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm."

Brian Masters

Other categories: Good and Evil

27. "Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

Other categories: God and Religion

28. "Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"

29. "The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."

William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"

30. "Beauty is a fragile gift."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Ars Amatoria"

31. "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Other categories: Art and Culture

32. "At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

Honoré De Balzac

Other categories: Woman and Man -:- Talent and Genius

33. "Love is a great beautifier."

Louisa May Alcott

Other categories: Love

34. "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"

Jean Kerr

35. "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

John Constable

Other categories: Marriage

36. "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

Anne Frank

Other categories: Happiness

37. "If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Love

38. "The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Persian proverb

Other categories: Various

39. "Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."

Friedrich von Schiller

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

40. "The key to education is the experience of beauty."

Friedrich von Schiller

Other categories: Education

41. "Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."

Laurette Taylor

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

42. "Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life."

Friedrich von Schiller

Other categories: Woman and Man

43. "Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."

Munshi Premchand

44. "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Other categories: Nature and Animals

45. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

Friedrich von Schiller

46. "Beauty is quite different from charm, beauty is what you notice in a woman, charm is when a woman notices you."

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47. "Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive."

Roy Campbell

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

48. "Small is beautiful."

E. F. Schumacher

49. "In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope."

Charles Revson

Other categories: Optimism and Hope

50. "He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect."

Henry Ward Beecher

Other categories: Nature and Animals

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