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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
View quotes by Jacqueline Bisset

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
View quotes by Josie Maran

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power,
Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
View quotes by Sir Aubrey De Vere

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
View quotes by John Keats

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls (Jubilate Agno)
View quotes by Christopher Smart

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
View quotes by Gustave Courbet

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
View quotes by Christopher Morley

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.
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
View quotes by Galbraith

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
View quotes by George Sand

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
View quotes by Louisa May Alcott

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
View quotes by Laetitia Casta

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
View quotes by W H Auden

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
View quotes by Hannah Arendt

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - The Peter Principle
View quotes by Laurence Peter

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak

Throughout the year so many draw pleasure from the beauty of the cathedral [Hereford] being decorated with flowers.
View quotes by Emma Stansfield

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard

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