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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. – Washington Irving

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty! – Charles Baudelaire

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! – Oliver Goldsmith

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. – Nikolai Gogol

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. – John Dryden

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. – Imelda Marcos

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. – Jennifer Aniston

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. – Jerry Saltz

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. – Phil Ochs

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. – Jean Paul

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. – Alanis Morissette

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. – Andre Breton

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. – Jean Paul

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability – they should go hand in hand. – Donald Norman