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Beauty

I have a book out called The Beauty Equation and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty. – Nigel Barker

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beautys sake and pulls it down to earth. – Marston Morse

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own souls doing. – Marie Carmichael Stopes

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beautys lofty trust secure. – William Allen Butler

If beauty isnt genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. – Peter York

I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you. – Joan Blondell

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, thats what I want to give. – Dame Edith Evans

All the beauty of the world, tis but skin deep. – Ralph Venning

I feel by posing for Playboy Ive discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever. – Heather Kozar

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. – English Proverb

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. – Proverb

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. – Proverb

Beauty is a good letter of introduction. – Proverb

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. – James Allen

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. – Father Andre

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. – Jean Anouilh

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty –excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable –should persist after the beauty was gone. – Mary Arnim

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – Max Beerbohm