Beauty

(60 votes)   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
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(62 votes)   A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(553 votes)   A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(71 votes)   All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
1821-1867, French Poet

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(45 votes)   As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(224 votes)   At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(38 votes)   Beauty always comes with risk

Kazi Shams

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(490 votes)   Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(679 votes)   Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(249 votes)   Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(54 votes)   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
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(92 votes)   Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Portuguese Proverbs
Sayings of Portuguese Origin

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(55 votes)   Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(483 votes)   Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(500 votes)   Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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