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Comedy3 quotes
There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point? — Pam Beesly · 2013You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body. — Ty Webb · 1980Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Derek Zoolander · 2001Animation2 quotes
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Evil Queen · 1937She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. — Beauty and the Beast · 1991Animation (film)2 quotes
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Evil Queen · 1937She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. — Beauty and the Beast · 1991Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874I 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. — John ConstableBlack comedy2 quotes
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. — Lester Burnham · 1999Black comedy (film)2 quotes
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. — Lester Burnham · 1999Comedy (film)2 quotes
You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body. — Ty Webb · 1980Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Derek Zoolander · 2001Comedy drama2 quotes
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. — Lester Burnham · 1999Comedy drama (film)2 quotes
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. — Lester Burnham · 1999Philosophical literature2 quotes
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter. — Roger Scruton · 2011Exuberance is beauty. — William Blake · 1793Tragedy (play)2 quotes
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed. — John Milton · 1671Children's literature1 quote
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl · 1980Comedy (TV)1 quote
There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point? — Pam Beesly · 2013Fantasy1 quote
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Evil Queen · 1937Fantasy (film)1 quote
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Evil Queen · 1937Great American songbook1 quote
A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day. — Irving Berlin · 1919Historical literature1 quote
Beauty is a gift of God. — Aristotle · 240Musical1 quote
She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. — Beauty and the Beast · 1991Musical (film)1 quote
She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. — Beauty and the Beast · 1991Narrative poem1 quote
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator. — William Shakespeare · 1594Science fiction1 quote
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? — Douglas Adams · 1979Sociology1 quote
"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. — Naomi Wolf · 1990Tragedy1 quote
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed. — John Milton · 1671