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An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film noir, or a 50s romantic comedy. He consequently turns around the orthodox gender between the one who looks and so desires, and the one who is looked at, and so is being desired.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.

At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

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