"Beauty is boring because it is predictable." — Umberto Eco

"Beauty is boring because it is predictable."

— Umberto Eco

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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…

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More Beauty Quotes

This quote is filed under Beauty Quotes, one of 8,501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

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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