Beauty Quotes

• "The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying."
  By: John Ruskin, Personal Beauty
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• "There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study."
  By: Giovanni Ruffini
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• "Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue."
  By: Giovanni Ruffini
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• "Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy, when they love?"
  By: Nicholas Rowe, The Fair Penitent (act III, sc. 1)
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• "Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Beauty is an accidental and transient good."
  By: Samuel Richardson
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• "A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages is like a flower without fragrance, a tree without fruit."
  By: Mathurin Regnier
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• "Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter."
  By: Richard Realf, Indirection
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• "A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection."
  By: Charles Reade
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• "No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance."
  By: John Ray (Wray)
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• "If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year."
  By: Sir Walter Raleigh (1)
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