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Beauty Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.…
- I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't…
- The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his…
- Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
- Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…
- One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,…
- The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
- I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
- For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
- ...But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful...
- No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
- Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty…
- The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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