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Quotes about beauty
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is the promise of happiness. (Bierce Ambrose)
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. (Bierce Ambrose)
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (Bierce Ambrose)
Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come (Bierce Ambrose)
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think. (Bierce Ambrose)
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it. (Bierce Ambrose)
Trust not too much to an enchanting face. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. (Bierce Ambrose)
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. (Bierce Ambrose)
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. (Bierce Ambrose)
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. (Bierce Ambrose)
Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face. (Bierce Ambrose)
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing. (Bierce Ambrose)
Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart. (Bierce Ambrose)
I have respect for beer. (Bierce Ambrose)
“Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.” (Bierce Ambrose)
“I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd want to get me at the end of the picture?” (Bierce Ambrose)
“Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?” (Bierce Ambrose)
Difficulty also creates its own kind of beauty, I suppose. And while I don't revisit it unless asked, there is this sense of apartness I felt during that period of time from our own world. (Bierce Ambrose)
“There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.” (Bierce Ambrose)
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