Beauty is one of those things everyone recognizes and nobody can quite define. These quotes take on physical beauty, natural beauty, inner beauty, and the strange way beautiful things can make you feel both happy and a little sad at the same time.
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“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.”
— Walter Pater
“It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.”
— Victoria Justice
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
— Ovid
“Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.”
— Martha Beck
“We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.”
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
— H. G. Wells
“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.”
— Zachary Levi
“When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.”
— Annie Lennox
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
— Henry Rollins
“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.”
— Lindsay Lohan
“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”
— Whitney Houston
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
— John Ruskin
“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
— Charles Baudelaire