Famous Quotes - Tags - Beauty
- ... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under... More
- ... when you do get a job everybody says, “Well, they wanted a black woman,” which... More
- ...I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives’ tales about the way men would instantly... More
- ...I wasn’t at all prepared for the avalanche of criticism that overwhelmed me. You would have... More
- A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the... More
- A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots,... More
- A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. More
- A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A... More
- A fellow almost damned in a fair wife. More
- A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action. A beautiful woman is a picture which... More
- A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first... More
- A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to... More
- A million butterflies rose up from South America,
All together, and flew in a gold storm... More
- A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift— More
- A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. More
- A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day. More
- A sweetheart from another life floats there
As though she had been forced to linger
From... More
- A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests,... More
- A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is... More
- A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the... More
- A woman’s beauty is a storm-tossed banner;
Under it wisdom stands, and I alone
Of all... More
- A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window,... More
- Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In... More
- Admirer and admired embrace
On a useless level, where
I contain your current... More
- Ah were she pitiful as she is fair,
Or but as mild as she is seeming so,
Then were my... More
- Ah, the pickerel of Walden! when I see them lying on the ice, or in the well which the fisherman... More
- Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
Beauty... More
- All beauties contain, like all possible phenomena, something eternal and something... More
- All beauty, resonance, integrity,
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position. More
- All dreams of the soul
End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body. More
- All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an... More
- All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid... More
- All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows... More
- all to no end save beauty
the eternal—
So in detail they, the crowd,
are... More
- All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. More
- Although Samuel had a depraved imagination—perhaps even because of this—love, for him, was... More
- Although the summer sunlight gild
Cloudy leafage of the sky,
Or wintry moonlight sink the... More
- Although they tell you you are most beautiful when you’re pregnant, all the models who... More
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him... More
- An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still,
Wherewith, alas! I have been long possessed, More
- And God would bid His warfare cease,
Saying all things were well;
And softly make a rosy... More
- And here I am, the
center of all beauty!
writing these poems!
Imagine! More
- And ivory and bright gold,
polished and lustrous grow faint
beside that wondrous... More
- And she’d had lucky eyes and a high heart,
And wisdom that caught fire like the dried... More
- And we who delve in beauty’s lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable... More
- And when I shall meet,
Thy silv’ry feet
My soul I’ll pour into thee. More
- And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
For hours when all... More
- And yet—it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook... More
- Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should... More
- As Nature is always careless and indifferent
Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is... More
- As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. More
- As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty.... More
- As white their bark, so white this lady’s hours. More
- Ask a toad what beauty is, the supreme beauty, the to kalon. He will tell you it is his lady toad... More
- At bottom, man mirrors himself in things; he considers everything beautiful that reflects his own... More
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. More
- At Sestos, Hero dwelt; Hero the faire,
Whom young Apollo, courted for her haire,
And... More
- At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint... More
- At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the... More
- Baby, they were plenty smart when they made you beautiful. More
- Back home the black women are all beautiful More
- Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest. More
- Beautiful women lead happy lives. More
- Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract... More
- Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by... More
- Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. More
- Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. More
- Beauty and honor in her are so mingled
That they have caught the king. More
- Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions. More
- Beauty can be feasted on. More
- Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles. More
- Beauty consists of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity is excessively difficult to... More
- Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at... More
- Beauty does not ensnare men; they ensnare themselves. More
- Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of... More
- Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. More
- Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. More
- Beauty is a fragile gift. More
- Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A... More
- Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house... More
- Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It... More
- Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all,... More
- Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the... More
- Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to... More
- Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought... More
- Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. More
- Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor... More
- Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time. More
- beauty is like piety—you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days,... More
- Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac. More
- Beauty is momentary in the mind—
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is... More
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them;... More
- Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. More
- Beauty is only the promise of happiness. More
- Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry,... More
- Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. More
- Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. More
- Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. More
- Beauty is the outside of a dream. More
- Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. More
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