Beauty Quotes
What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.
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"Beauty and goodness are manifested in simplicity."John Stuart Mill
"The beauty of nature is corrupted by those who seek profit from its exploitation."Friedrich Engels
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."Edmund Burke
"The body is not a natural fact but a surface inscribed with the marks of history and power."Michel Foucault
"The care of the self is not narcissistic withdrawal but a political and ethical practice of self-creation."Michel Foucault
"The fact is, that the public have an insatiable appetite for beauty."Benjamin Disraeli
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."Edmund Burke
"Nobility is a graceful attribute of the human mind."Edmund Burke
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but utility is objective."Jeremy Bentham
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."Prince Metternich
"The beauty of life lies in its uncertainty."Prince Metternich
"The beauty of life lies in its unpredictability and infinite possibilities."Queen Victoria
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."Edmund Burke
"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is productive of the sublime."Edmund Burke
"Beauty is truth seen from a new angle."Wilhelm II
"Beauty surrounds us if we take the time to see it."Wilhelm II
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."Wilhelm II
"The beauty of a thing not known is infinitely greater than the beauty of the thing known."Benjamin Disraeli
"The beauty of a woman lies not in her face, but in her character."Queen Victoria
"The capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance."John Stuart Mill
"Beauty in nature speaks to the divine in us."William Gladstone
"The beauty of the human spirit emerges in acts of selfless devotion."William Gladstone
"Beauty and truth often walk hand in hand."Prince Metternich
"Beauty in art comes from discipline and tradition, not from rebellion."Wilhelm II
"Beauty is found in precision and order, not in chaos and accident."Wilhelm II
"Beauty is not in the object alone, but in the mind that perceives it."John Stuart Mill
"Art and elegance of manners are not the priority of an inferior rank."Edmund Burke
"Taste and elegance, though they are rightly called the off-spring of judgment and strength, are far from being little trifles."Edmund Burke
"The truly sublime is made up of a kind of delightful horror, a sort of tranquillity tinged by terror."Edmund Burke
"The beauty of a woman must be felt, not merely seen."Benjamin Disraeli