Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. – Ouida
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. – Janis Ian
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. – Patricia Sun
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. – Emily Mortimer
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. – Gaston Bachelard
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. – Claude Debussy
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not. – Carl Van Vechten
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. – Hans Urs von Balthasar
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. – Hans Urs von Balthasar
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. – Vladimir Kramnik
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. – Robert Caro
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations. – Robert Caro
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. – George Henry Lewes
My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up. – Shay Mitchell
We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior. – Shay Mitchell
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. – Don DeLillo
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior. – Candice Bergen
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. – Rudolf Otto
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. – Lindsay Wagner
Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon. – Tia Carrere
