Beauty Quotes And Sayings

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“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
– Eric Hoffer

“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”
– Erich Fromm

“Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.”
– Florenz Ziegfeld

“You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”
– Frank Zappa

“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
– Friedrich Schiller

“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Beauty… is the shadow of God on the universe.”
– Gabriela Mistral

“Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.”
– Garrison Keillor

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
– George Bernard Shaw

“Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.”
– George Eliot

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
– George Meredith

“Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.”
– George W. Russell

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.”
– Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Beauty – in projection and perceiving – is 99.9% attitude.”
– Grey Livingston

“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
– H. G. Wells

“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”
– Helena Rubinstein

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
– Henry Rollins

“The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf- it’s almost a law.”
– Herbert George Wells

“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”
– Honore de Balzac

“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
– Jean Cocteau

“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
– Jean Ingelow

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?”
– Jean Kerr

“‘I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me ‘sir’.”
– Joan Rivers

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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