"Beauty is not a means, not a way……" — Eudora Welty

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing… - Eudora Welty

"Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect."

— Eudora Welty

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92 Quotes by Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beware of a man with manners.
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an…
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe,…
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river…
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else…
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first…
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of…
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about…
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are…
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and…
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

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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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