Beauty Quotes

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

18919 quotes

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"She was ashamed of what she had done, ashamed of the very thing that had made her happiest."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Beauty is terrible and awful because it's not comprehensible, and nothing ought to be incomprehensible in the world."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The terrible thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Beauty without virtue is a flower without fragrance."
Don Quixote
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"She is loveliness itself."
Mr. Darcy
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"Where is the heart that would not rejoice in the smile of a beautiful woman?"
Don Quixote
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"Beauty fades, but character endures."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now."
Mrs. Bennet
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"No one who has ever seen you can think anything impossible."
Mr. Darcy
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"True beauty lies in sincerity."
Mercédès
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"Beauty without love is like a landscape without sky."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Natural beauty without affectation is the greatest charm"
Natasha Rostova
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"Beauty is the flower of virtue."
Don Quixote
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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 awful thing is that 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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"All the variety, all the charm, and all the beauty of life is made up of light and shade."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole but is reflected in her soul."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Beauty fades but character endures."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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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 yearns for beauty even when the body is surrounded by ugliness."
Don Quixote
L
"Beauty fades, but character endures."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
D
"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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"She was beautiful, but beauty could not save her."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Beauty without virtue is like a flower without fragrance"
Don Quixote
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"Everything that is beautiful must be paid for with suffering."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The lamp-light strained on her pale cheeks."
Nick Carraway
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"Beauty is incomprehensible because nothing ever matches it."
Natasha Rostova
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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 hardest thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible."
Dmitri Karamazov