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Beauty Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
- The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty,…
- The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,…
- We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.
- All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves…
- People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity…
- In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the…
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
- He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked…
- So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you…
- He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he…
- Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
- All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
- What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
- He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace…
- Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,…
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness.…
More Beauty Quotes
- 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 it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — 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 ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — 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