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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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God he knows, thy share thereof is small.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 3” - 1595

“His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 2” - 1594

“For thou hast given me in this beauteous face a world of earthly blessings to my soul, if sympathy of love unite our thoughts.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 2” - 1594

“She in beauty, education, blood, holds hand with any princess of the world.” William Shakespeare, “King John” - 1623

“Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.” William Shakespeare, “Venus and Adonis” - 1593

“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“In so wild and so beautiful a region was spent my first day, every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“With inexpressible delight you wade out into the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all intrusion, secure from yourself, free in...” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?” Plato, “The Republic”

“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

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