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