Beauty Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image ““With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.”” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beauty Forgiveness Generosity Genius Intelligence Leniency Social norms Society
“And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“We are all perfectly and inevitably flawed, and one’s beauty is because of it, not in spite of it.” — Kelly Bowen Copy Share Image
“She was so beautiful. But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties.” — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades.” — Cassandra Duffy Copy Share Image
“You will never be perfect. You are permanently, inevitably and uniquely flawed. And this is what makes you so beautiful.” — Annika Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“When your beauty blends with intelligence, you become invincible.” — Utibe Samuel Mbom Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
To fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity, and still be… — Tool Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it. — Tumblr Copy Share Image
