Quotes with beauty-truths

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  • Graham Greene In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Reade Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
    Charles Reade
    British writer (1814 - 1884)
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  • William Congreve A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • James Baldwin Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Frank Zappa 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
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
    Endymion (1818) I, 1
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Emily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Stendhal Beauty is the promise of happiness.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Plato Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Betty Field I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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