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Afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

John Galsworthy

1920

★ 1.8

Autobiography and memoir

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

★ 1.8

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1814

★ 1.9

Personal journal

The beautiful implies a combination of many different qualities. Strength alone, without elegance, etc., is not beauty. In a single word, the broadest definition would be harmony.

Eugene Delacroix

1854

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject.

1974

★ 1.9

Beauty's but skin deep.

John Davies of Hereford

1616

★ 1.9

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

Charles Baudelaire

1846

★ 1.9

I was half mad with beauty on that day.

1858

★ 1.9

Personal journal

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

1903

★ 1.9

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

On Photography · 1977

★ 1.9

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

1991

★ 1.9

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

Gaius Petronius

Satyricon · 66

★ 2.0

Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possessed.

1671

★ 2.0

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

1818

★ 2.0

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 · 1820

★ 2.0

I think the peasant girl is more beautiful than a lady, in her dusty, patched blue skirt and bodice, which get the most delicate hues from weather, wind, and sun. But if she puts on a lady's dress, she loses her peculiar charm.

Vincent van Gogh

1885

★ 2.0

Novel · Magazine

Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 2.0

Poem · Narrative poem

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 2.1

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty · 1860

★ 2.1

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander · 2001

★ 2.1

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