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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. (Turlington Christy)
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy. (Turlington Christy)
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. (Turlington Christy)
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. (Turlington Christy)
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. (Turlington Christy)
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. (Turlington Christy)
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing... (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. (Turlington Christy)
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. (Turlington Christy)
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? (Turlington Christy)
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. (Turlington Christy)
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. (Turlington Christy)
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. (Turlington Christy)
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. (Turlington Christy)
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