"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both……" — Aldous Huxley

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

— Aldous Huxley

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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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