Quotes with beauty-truths

Quotes 261 till 280 of 441.

  • Bayard Taylor So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Juvenal So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Helen Rowland Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Brad Meltzer Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Billy Ocean Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Beth Ditto Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • George Meredith That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Denis Waitley That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bre Pettis That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Havelock Ellis The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Naomi Wolf The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Buzz Aldrin The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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