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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats on beauty

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik on beauty

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne on beauty

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 on beauty

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana on beauty

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham on beauty

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith on beauty

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell Bovee on beauty

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt on beauty

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide on beauty

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison on beauty

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter on beauty

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos on beauty

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Imelda Marcos on beauty

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Joseph Joubert on beauty

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.
Shaun White on beauty

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
Tyra Banks on beauty

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
David Herbert Lawrence on beauty

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
George Gissing on beauty

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Mason Cooley on beauty