beauty Quotes

“I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?”

― Plato, The Republic

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“Alas! . . . that so dull a spirit should be lodged in so goodly a form! Alas! that such an enterprise as the regeneration of England should turn on a hinge so imperfect!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . .”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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