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Beauty Quotes by Famous Authors
Explore the best timeless quotes on Beauty, including thoughts on Beauty. Discover the best Beauty quotes by renowned authors.
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“Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.”
Ivan Turgenev
Reality
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Survival
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Beauty
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Truth
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Harshness
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“No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand – for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.”
Ivan Turgenev
Nature
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Mystery
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Perception
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Language
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Beauty
3.
“Why is it that when one is enjoying, say, a piece of music, or a beautiful summer evening, or a conversation with a sympathetic companion, the occasion seems rather a hint at an infinite felicity existent elsewhere than a real felicity actually being experienced?”
Ivan Turgenev
Joy
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Beauty
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Longing
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Experience
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Reflection
4.
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn’t it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Nature
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Contrast
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Beauty
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Life
5.
“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is around us. Look at those trees, that sky on all sides there is the breath of beauty, and of life, and where there is life and beauty, there is poetry also.”
Ivan Turgenev
Poetry
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Beauty
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Nature
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Life
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Inspiration
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“Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.”
Camille Paglia
Mythology
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Beauty
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Gender
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Society
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Art
7.
“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
Camille Paglia
Beauty
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Nature
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Art
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Philosophy
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Aesthetics
8.
“Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.”
Camille Paglia
Ballet
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Art
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Dance
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Ceremony
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Beauty
9.
“Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.”
Camille Paglia
Gender
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Ambition
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Beauty
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Women
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Society
10.
“What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature’s daemonic ugliness will erupt.”
Camille Paglia
Nature
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Beauty
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Philosophy
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Society
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Environment
11.
“An aesthete does not necessarily dress well or collect art works: an aesthete is one who lives by the eye.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Aesthetics
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Philosophy
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Beauty
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Culture
12.
“No price is too great for a work of unquestioned beauty and known authenticity.”
J.P. Morgan
Value
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Art
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Beauty
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Authenticity
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Appreciation
13.
“Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.”
Andrew Carnegie
Nature
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Life
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Beauty
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Home
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Perspective
14.
“I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others.”
Mitch Hedberg
Hair
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Highlights
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Humor
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Beauty
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Preference
15.
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
Charles Lamb
Life
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Beauty
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Reality
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Perspective
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Authenticity
16.
“Fly not yet; ’t is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.”
Charles Lamb
Night
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Pleasure
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Mystery
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Romance
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Beauty
17.
“I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.”
Charles Lamb
Children
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Innocence
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Beauty
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Love
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Nature
18.
“To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty’s chain, Then throw it idly by.”
Charles Lamb
Love
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Emotion
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Fleeting
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Beauty
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Melancholy
19.
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.”
Charles Lamb
Nature
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Beauty
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Nostalgia
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Tranquility
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Serenity
20.
“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.”
Charles Lamb
Beauty
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Superficial
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Humor
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Perspective
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Self-Image
21.
“I am in love with this green Earth.”
Charles Lamb
Nature
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Beauty
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Appreciation
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Love
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Environment
22.
“When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.”
Charles Lamb
Emotion
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Music
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Simplicity
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Sensitivity
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Beauty
23.
“The light that lies In woman’s eyes.”
Charles Lamb
Women
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Beauty
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Light
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Eyes
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Love
24.
“What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.”
Margaret Fuller
Life
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Beauty
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Power
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Completeness
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Purpose
25.
“Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.”
Margaret Fuller
Invention
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Creativity
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Interpretation
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Beauty
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Appreciation
26.
“A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. – Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.”
Margaret Fuller
Art
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Thought
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Beauty
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Literature
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Expression
27.
“Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.”
Margaret Fuller
Nature
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Abundance
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Joy
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Beauty
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Generosity
28.
“It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.”
V.S. Naipaul
Light
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Perception
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Beauty
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Reality
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Vision
29.
“I wondered that clothes, even the apparently revealing tropical clothes I had seen on Yvette, should have concealed so much, should have broken the body up, as it were, into separate parts and not really hinted at the splendour of the whole.”
V.S. Naipaul
Perception
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Clothing
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Beauty
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Observation
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Body
30.
“I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.”
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Love
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Wine
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Beauty
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Age
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Experience
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