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"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"The soul is healed by beautiful things"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"The terrible thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"The world is beautiful, and I want to live, even if it is sinful"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Beauty and cruelty are neighbors on Gethen"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
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"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly"
Roald Dahl
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"Beauty is a weapon. And I was going to use it."
Celia St. James
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"Beauty fades, but virtue endures."
Edmond Dantès
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"I was a noble creature in my thoughts, though deformed in my aspect"
The Creature
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"I am the color of spinach, the color of old things."
Laila
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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
Laila
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"The beauty of the Polar region has surprised my expectations."
Walton
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"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The paperweight was the room."
Winston Smith
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"She's prettier than a doll."
Pip
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"You are getting prettier every day, Jane."
Mr. Rochester
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"Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"It is what you are that matters, not what you look like."
Basil Hallward
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Beauty is a form of genius–is higher, indeed, than genius."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming."
The Narrator
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"Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"She counted the rings; they were not many and clear"
The Narrator
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"The stars are scarcely brighter than her diamonds."
Pip
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"The secret to remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Youth is the one thing worth having."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Youth is the only thing worth having."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
The Narrator
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"Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
Lord Henry Wotton