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Beauty

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. – Sarah Bernhardt

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. – Eliza Farnham

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. – David Attenborough

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. – Anna Quindlen

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. – Sallust

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun. – Vivienne Westwood

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. – Neil Gaiman

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. – Annie Dillard

Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder. – John Zimmerman

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world. – Michael Franti

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising. – Tia Mowry

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. – Alexander McQueen

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world. – Imelda Marcos

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit. – Imelda Marcos

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. – King Hussein I

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom. – Rashida Jones

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls. – Rashida Jones

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. – Henry Drummond

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. – Marcel Duchamp