Beauty quotes
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"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."
"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck."
"Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder."
"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."
"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."
"A woman is most beautiful when she smiles."
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."
"Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally."
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."
"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"
"Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built."
"I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast."
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."
"My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."
