Beauty

(51 votes)   There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(50 votes)   To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(47 votes)   It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(46 votes)   The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Lord Greville
1554-1628, British Poet

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(46 votes)   The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Katherine Anne Porter
1890-1980, American short-story Writer, Novelist

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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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(45 votes)   what's the use of your beauty if your brains is empty'? beauty doesn't pertain for the physical look only.. what's the use of your brain if your heart is empty

cruz

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(44 votes)   Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Milman

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(41 votes)   There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(38 votes)   Beauty always comes with risk

Kazi Shams

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