Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Spiritual beauty is a superior force."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
Anton Chekhov
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"A picture is a poem without words."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The thirst for beauty is never fully quenched."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Those who despise beauty are blind."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Land of Heart's Desire, where beauty lives eternal."
William Butler Yeats
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"Beauty and foolishness meet in the eye."
William Butler Yeats
"Beauty lies in incomplete things."
Samuel Beckett
"Beauty is not in what we see but in how we see."
Samuel Beckett
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"It is better to be beautiful than to be good."
Oscar Wilde
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde
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"The very truth of the matter is this: Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces irritation, struggle, and all mutual hatred."
Oscar Wilde
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The soul that has believed in beauty cannot wholly perish."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Beauty is truth made visible."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The most beautiful things in life are often the simplest."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The beautiful Milly Bloom drew over her window shade."
James Joyce
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"Beauty is not something that can be explained in words alone."
James Joyce
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"Beauty emerges from the acceptance of imperfection."
James Joyce
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"The beauty of life is in noticing small things."
Anton Chekhov
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"Beautiful things are fragile; that is part of their beauty."
Anton Chekhov
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
George Bernard Shaw
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"For beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue."
William Butler Yeats
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"The beauty of a moment often reveals itself only in memory."
William Butler Yeats
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"The greatest poverty is not to live in a beautiful world."
Thomas Hardy
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"Beauty fades, but character endures."
Thomas Hardy
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Thomas Hardy
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"It is better to be beautiful than to be good."
Oscar Wilde