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Beauty quotes

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“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“People always get used to beauty, though.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“We told each other that Nature was beautiful, even in her tears.” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us...” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“I knew I belonged to the Public and to the world, not because I was talented, or even beautiful but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“The truth . . . It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Art” - 1841

“There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.” Charles Darwin, “On The Origin of Species” - 1859

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.” Haruki Murakami, “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” - 2007

“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” Ray Bradbury, “The Martian Chronicles” - 1950

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” John Muir, “The Yosemite” - 1912

“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!” Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire” - 1947

“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “Studies in Pessimism” - 1891

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it.” Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” - 1927

“That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty.” J. D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey” - 1961

“I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“For she had eyes and chose me.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“She never yet was foolish that was fair; For even her folly help'd her to an heir.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” - 1842

“I will beat thee into handsomeness.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“What, is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel because his painted skin contents the eye?” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

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