Beauty and Ugliness

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."

Sophia Loren

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

John Ruskin

Beauty and Ugliness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance."

John Ruskin

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Khalil Gibran "The Prophet"

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 5.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

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Beauty and Ugliness

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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."

Godard-Jean-Luc

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Paul Gauguin "Intimate Journals"

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Beauty and Ugliness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Fulton John Sheen "Peace of Soul"

Beauty and Ugliness

Good and Evil

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty and Ugliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Mason Cooley

Beauty and Ugliness

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

P.J. O`Rourke

Beauty and Ugliness

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Beauty is only the promise of happiness."

Stendhal

Beauty and Ugliness

Happiness

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Aleister Crowley "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

George Brossin Méré

Beauty and Ugliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"What is really beautiful must always be true."

Stendhal "Armance"

Beauty and Ugliness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Beauty and Ugliness

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 8)

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

Charles Baudelaire

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

John Barrymore

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 1.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Ray Evans "To Each His Own"

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature."

Gérard De Nerval

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

John Ruskin

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Gaston Bachelard

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Eliza Farnham "Woman and Her Era"

Beauty and Ugliness

Human

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Anouk Aimée

Beauty and Ugliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Brian Masters

Beauty and Ugliness

Good and Evil

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Jean Anouilh "Becket"

Beauty and Ugliness

God and Religion

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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"

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

William Somerset Maugham "Cakes and Ale"

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) "Ars Amatoria"

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Art and Culture

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Honoré De Balzac

Beauty and Ugliness

Talent and Genius

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Love is a great beautifier."

Louisa May Alcott

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Beauty and Ugliness

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anne Frank

Beauty and Ugliness

Happiness

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and Ugliness

Love

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Persian Proverbs

Beauty and Ugliness

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Friedrich von Schiller

Beauty and Ugliness

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Friedrich von Schiller

Beauty and Ugliness

Education

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Laurette Taylor

Beauty and Ugliness

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Friedrich von Schiller

Beauty and Ugliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Munshi Premchand

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 2.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Friedrich von Schiller

Beauty and Ugliness

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)