Beauty Quotes
What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.
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"What is beautiful is good and what is good is true."Judge Holden
"Shug, you do have a pretty face though."Celie
"What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint."Stevens
"What is beautiful is often terrible."Judge Holden
"What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint."Stevens
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."Shug Avery
"I love your hair when it kinky and wild."Shug Avery
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."Shug Avery
"In the last analysis the beautiful things of the world are not of themselves beautiful."Judge Holden
"Beauty requires cruelty."Serena Joy
"It was a powerful fine sight to see."Huckleberry Finn
"Beauty is always dangerous"Offred
"There is beauty in acceptance."Mariam
"Your heart is a jewel."Shug Avery
"She prettier than God now."Celie
"We had the sky up there all speckled with stars."Huckleberry Finn
"Beauty can exist even in the darkest circumstances."The Narrator (omniscient)
"She had a quality that the world couldn't touch."The Narrator (omniscient)
"She had never known beauty until she understood solitude."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Beauty and cruelty often walk hand in hand."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Beauty is a terrible and frightful thing that we find difficult to comprehend"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."Judge Holden
"I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so beautiful."Death
"I wanted to tell the book thief many things about beauty."Death
"Her face was pale but beautiful in its darkness."Death
"Sometimes the most beautiful things are those we're not supposed to find."Daniel Sempere
"She understood finally that beauty fades but goodness remains."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"There was only one thing in the world as beautiful as Fermina Daza, and that was the world itself."Florentino Ariza
"Beauty is dangerous when it is real."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"She had never imagined that growing old could be so beautiful."Fermina Daza