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Beauty is its own excuse. - John Greenleaf Whittier, Songs of Labor (dedication) No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) She is a peacock in everything but beauty. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. - Robert Aris Willmott Sometimes there are living beings in nature as beautiful as in romance; reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes, sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. - John Wilson (2) (used pseudonym Christopher North), The Lily of Liddesdale, in his 1822 collection entitled "Lights and Shadows of Scottish LIfe" The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. - Sloan Wilson Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God. - Johann Joachim Winckelmann Where rivulets dance their wayward round, and beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face. - William Wordsworth Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive, though a happy place. - William Wordsworth, Laodamia Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair, Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn. - William Wordsworth, She Was a Phantom of Delight And beauty born of murmuring sound. - William Wordsworth, Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. - William Wordsworth, To-------Let Other Bards of Angels Sing Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays; A face o'er which a thousand shadows go! - William Wordsworth, Triad Beauty is truth, truth beauty--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - William Butler Yeats 'Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might. - William Butler Yeats Beautiful as sweet! and young as beautiful! and soft as young! and gay as soft! and innocent as gay! - Edward Young The body charms because the soul is seen. - Edward Young What's true beauty but fair virtue's face,--virtue made visible in outward grace. - Edward Young What's female beauty, but an air divine, Through which the mind's all-gentle graces shine! They, like the Sun, irradiate all between; The body charms, because the soul is seen. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire VI, l. 151) Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 17 of 17 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [17]
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