• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 92 reads

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• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 69 reads

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• Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 125 reads

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• Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 88 reads

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• Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 38 votes · 108 reads

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• Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

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  Eugene Ionesco

  PlaywrightFrench1909 · 20th century

  3.9 · 61 votes · 60 reads

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• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 44 reads

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• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 130 reads

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• Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 39 reads

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• Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 188 reads

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• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 27 votes · 26 reads

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• Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

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  Jean-Luc Godard

  AuthorFrench1930 · 20th century

  4.1 · 17 votes · 153 reads

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• Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 149 reads

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• Beauty is not caused. It is.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 172 reads

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• Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 158 reads

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• Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 74 reads

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• Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 101 reads

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• Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 104 reads

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 174 reads

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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

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 135 reads

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.8 · 28 votes · 119 reads

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• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 120 reads

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• Beauty rests on necessities.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 38 reads

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• Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 46 reads

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• Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 47 reads

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• Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 122 reads

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• Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 13 votes · 182 reads

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• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.1 · 50 votes · 12 reads

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 49 votes · 106 reads

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• Exuberance is beauty.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 115 reads

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• Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 60 reads

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• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 192 reads

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• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 96 reads

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• I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 143 reads

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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 131 reads

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• If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.6 · 23 votes · 192 reads

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• In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 138 reads

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• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 86 reads

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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 161 reads

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• It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 95 reads

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• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 32 reads

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• Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 96 reads

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• Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 11 reads

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• Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 50 votes · 17 reads

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• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 29 votes · 45 reads

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• One evening I sat Beauty on my knees -And I found her bitter -And I reviled her.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

  PoetFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 174 reads

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• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 8 votes · 82 reads

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• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.7 · 16 votes · 120 reads

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 21 reads

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• Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 141 reads

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• Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 144 reads

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• Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 157 reads

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• The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 54 votes · 56 reads

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• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.3 · 46 votes · 28 reads

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• The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 81 reads

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• The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 152 reads

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  3.9 · 61 votes · 109 reads

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• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 74 reads

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• The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 32 reads

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• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 157 reads

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• The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  5.0 · 54 votes · 4 reads

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• The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 200 reads

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• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  3.0 · 64 votes · 139 reads

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• The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 168 reads

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• There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 150 reads

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• There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

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  Edmond de Goncourt

  WriterFrench1822 · 19th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 55 reads

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• There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 3 reads

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 95 reads

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• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.5 · 27 votes · 19 reads

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• Things are beautiful if you love them.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 13 reads

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 155 reads

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• Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 183 reads

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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 43 votes · 157 reads

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• What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 51 reads

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• Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 151 reads

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