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Beauty

«Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.»
Author: Kevyn Aucoin | About: Beauty
«Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan;The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things.Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme,Empty darkness under the death-tent wings.She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood,Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.»
Author: Robinson Jeffers (Writer) | About: Beauty
«Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee»
Author: William McCall | About: Beauty, Duty | Keywords: curved, straight line
«So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?»
Author: Anne Rice (Author) | About: Beauty, Music | Keywords: cynical, despairing, untrusting, wound
«Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.»
«She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances»
«She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies»
«Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.»
«She is a peacock in everything but beauty»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Beauty | Keywords: peacock, peacocks
«She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won»