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Quotes about beauty
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. (Bierce Ambrose)
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. (Bierce Ambrose)
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. (Bierce Ambrose)
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. (Bierce Ambrose)
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. (Bierce Ambrose)
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
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... (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. (Bierce Ambrose)
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? (Bierce Ambrose)
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. (Bierce Ambrose)
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. (Bierce Ambrose)
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. (Bierce Ambrose)
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