Beauty Quotes

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

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"The cult of beauty requires its victims."
Oscar Wilde
"Beauty is a wound opening again and again."
Samuel Beckett
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"I use the word 'beauty' in the largest possible sense."
James Joyce
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"Beauty is found not in perfection but in authenticity."
James Joyce
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"The beauty of life is in its impermanence."
James Joyce
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"The diversity of minds is beautiful and infinite."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The greatest beauty lies in the human spirit."
Leo Tolstoy
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"If we see a face we do not know, and are struck by its fineness, it is because in it we discern the presence of a soul."
George Eliot
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"The beauty of association can be quite independent of the beauty of the thing associated."
Thomas Hardy
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"Beauty is found in unexpected places."
Anne Brontë
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"Beauty is a reflection of divine order."
Anne Brontë
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"Beauty awakens the soul."
Anne Brontë
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"May I seem, though I die and die, kindly and clear in the air."
William Butler Yeats
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"Beauty and heroism have not altogether departed from mankind."
William Butler Yeats
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"The beautiful cannot stand in a place where there is falsehood."
William Butler Yeats
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"Beauty lies not in appearance alone but in the soul."
Emily Brontë
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"Beauty is as beauty does."
Emily Brontë
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"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
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"The woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I never realised what red tulips meant till I saw them beside yellow ones."
Oscar Wilde
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"Now I can die happy. I have seen some fine actresses in my time, but never anyone quite so fine as you."
Oscar Wilde
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"He had known neither the beauty of control nor the beauty of abandon."
James Joyce
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"The beauty of life is always in the details."
James Joyce
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"Beauty fades, but integrity endures."
Anne Brontë
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"The most beautiful things are often the simplest."
Anne Brontë
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"Beauty often conceals ugliness, and vice versa."
Thomas Hardy
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"The contemplation of beauty often leads to melancholy rather than joy."
Thomas Hardy
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"Beauty lies not in the symmetry of form, but in the authenticity of spirit."
Emily Brontë
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"Beauty is momentary in the mind; the fitful tracing of a portal, but in the flesh it is immortal."
William Butler Yeats
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"There is no greater source of beauty than truth."
Charlotte Brontë