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Oscar Wilde3 quotes
The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Beauty 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. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Fyodor Dostoevsky2 quotes
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880Beauty will save the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869John Donne2 quotes
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631John Keats2 quotes
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. — John Keats · 1820A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. — John Keats · 1818William Shakespeare2 quotes
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator. — William Shakespeare · 1594Aldous Huxley1 quote
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Aldous Huxley · 1917Aristotle1 quote
Beauty is a gift of God. — Aristotle · 240Camille Pissarro1 quote
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing! — Camille Pissarro · 1893Charles Baudelaire1 quote
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. — Charles Baudelaire · 1846David Hume1 quote
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. — David Hume · 1758Derek Zoolander1 quote
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Derek Zoolander · 2001Douglas Adams1 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 · 1979Eugene Delacroix1 quote
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 · 1854Evil Queen1 quote
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Evil Queen · 1937Gaius Petronius1 quote
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. — Gaius Petronius · 66Hedda Sterne1 quote
For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007Irving Berlin1 quote
A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day. — Irving Berlin · 1919Jack Kerouac1 quote
Pretty girls make graves. — Jack Kerouac · 1958John Constable1 quote
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. — John ConstableJohn Davies of Hereford1 quote
Beauty's but skin deep. — John Davies of Hereford · 1616John Galsworthy1 quote
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 · 1920John Milton1 quote
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed. — John Milton · 1671John Ruskin1 quote
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. — John Ruskin · 1851Joshua Reynolds1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Julia Margaret Cameron1 quote
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874Khaled Hosseini1 quote
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. — Khaled Hosseini · 2013Lester Burnham1 quote
And 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 · 1999Margaret Wolfe Hungerford1 quote
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford · 1878Max Beckmann1 quote
I believe that humor is a part of beauty. — Max Beckmann · 1903Michelangelo1 quote
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love. — Michelangelo · 1525