Quotes with beauty

Quotes 321 till 340 of 376.

  • Sir Richard Steele To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Albert Einstein To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • William Shakespeare 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
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Ben Jonson Underneath this stone doth lie
    As much beauty as could die;
    Which in life did harbor give
    To more virtue than doth live.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Susan Sontag Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Aldous Huxley Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Adam Schiff Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Fort Newton We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Carre Otis We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Wark Griffiths We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Kahlil Gibran We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Carrie Fisher We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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