Quotes and Sayings About Beauty
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
-- A. A. Milne -
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
-- A. A. Milne -
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
-- A. A. Milne -
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
-- A. C. BensonSource : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin
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I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
-- A. L. Rowse -
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
-- Aaliyah -
I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
-- Aaliyah -
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
-- Adele -
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
-- AdeleSource : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.160, Random House
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai E. StevensonSource : "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
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Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
-- Adriana Lima -
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
-- Agnes Martin -
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
-- Agnes SmedleySource : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
-- Aime Cesaire -
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.
-- Aino Kallas -
No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn`t even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Beauty is transient and changes with time.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
-- Akhenaton -
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
-- Alan Cohen -
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
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Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.
-- Alan SeegerSource : Alan Seeger, Amanda Harlech (2001). “Alan Seeger: the complete works”, Steidl / Edition7L
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
-- Albert Camus -
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
-- Albert Einstein -
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-- Albert Einstein -
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-- Albert Einstein -
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
-- Albert Einstein