| beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. -- Oscar Wilde |
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Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. -- Euripides |
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EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. -- Albert Camus |
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Camus, AlbertEra:
1913 |
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| Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. -- George Bernard Shaw |
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Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. -- John Milton |
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Milton, JohnEra:
1608 |
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| beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. -- John Dryden |
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Dryden, JohnEra:
1631 |
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| Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. -- John C. Powys |
| Author:
Powys, John C.Era:
1872 |
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| No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. -- George Bancroft |
| Author:
Bancroft, GeorgeEra:
1800 |
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| Order is a lovely nymph, the child of beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder. -- Samuel Johnson |
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Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| beauty is a short-lived tyranny. -- Socrates |
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SocratesEra:
-469 |
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| beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author:
Bierce, AmbroseEra:
1842 |
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| Exuberance is beauty. -- William Blake |
| Author:
Blake, WilliamEra:
1757 |
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| Rare is the union of beauty and purity. -- Juvenal |
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JuvenalEra:
60 |
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| beauty and folly are old companions. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author:
Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -- Leo Tolstoy |
| Author:
Tolstoy, LeoEra:
1828 |
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| To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. -- Richard Steele |
| Author:
Steele, RichardEra:
1672 |
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| For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. -- Matthew Prior |
| Author:
Prior, MatthewEra:
1664 |
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| A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything. -- Sivananda |
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SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. -- Helen Rowland |
| Author:
Rowland, HelenEra:
1875 |
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| beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. -- Jean Paul Richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. -- Aristotle |
| Author:
AristotleEra:
-384 |
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| The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. -- Virginia Woolf |
| Author:
Woolf, VirginiaEra:
1882 |
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| Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter |
| Author:
Peter, Laurence J.Era:
1919 |
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| Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. -- Walter Raleigh |
| Author:
Raleigh, WalterEra:
1552 |
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| The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. -- Elizabeth B. Browning |
| Author:
Browning, Elizabeth B.Era:
1806 |
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| Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. -- John Ruskin |
| Author:
Ruskin, JohnEra:
1819 |
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| Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Samuel Daniel |
| Author:
Daniel, SamuelEra:
1562 |
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| Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. -- Navajo Song |
| Author:
Navajo SongEra:
0 |
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| In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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