There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
OuidaThroughout the year so many draw pleasure from the beauty of the cathedral [Hereford] being decorated with flowers.
Emma StansfieldThe ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Joan RiversWhen I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R Buckminster FullerHe it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry YelvertonDreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waitingto be born.
Dale TurnerAn agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.
Henry HomeBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous HuxleyBeauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.
LuluBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan PoeArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul GauguinTo invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
Jaroslav PelikanBeauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Gustave CourbetMany a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
G H LewesA beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai StevensonPoetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls
James Russell LowellPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan PoeIt is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm
Bernard FontenelleBeauty and grace command the world.
Park BenjaminThrough loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
André GideI can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
Traci BinghamWhere the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart
Leigh HuntAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaSince love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint AugustineThe hero of my tale - whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful - is Truth (Sevastopol in May)
Leo TolstoyBeauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics (A Mathematician's Apology)
Godfrey Harold HardyPeople say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda MarcosLove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies (Elegies 'The Anagram')
John DonneMarriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorPersonal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
AristotleI believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
Saint AugustineTiger or Jim Furyk or Justin Rose, I can't control what they do, and they can't control what I do. Which is the beauty of golf
Aaron BaddeleyNicola is absolutely stunning. It's up to the casting directors but we really hope she gets through. She didn't let on to the casting directors she was a beauty queen. [on Nicola Jolly joining Hollyoaks]
Ali BastianAll the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
Michael FrantiOur flag is a thing of beauty and inspiration if you look at it with the right perspective. The flag is beautiful... it's not the fault of the flag some of the people making decisions for our country are not. The government makes very poor decisions... OFTEN... but don't blame the flag. Try to remember what raising it at Iwo Jima meant to the surviving 27 men who lived to see it raised on Mount Suribachi. How many flag burners would burn that flag?
John A MarshallThe goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage.
R K ElliottStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleBeauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher MorleyCourtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice
MontaigneBeauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs
MontaigneIt is an allegory of both the beauty and tragedy of human life [on gardening]
Roy StrongThere's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon
Thomas HoodA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo LeopoldBeauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
Charles MaturinNatural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John UpdikeMy feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment [on a possible European Super League]
Roman AbramovichZest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian DiorBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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