Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover…

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

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Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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“Beauty is in the eye of the BEERHOLDER”- WC Fields or Rodney Dangerfield ? - View Quote Details on “Beauty is in the eye of the BEERHOLDER”- WC Fields…
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~ Chinese proverb - View Quote Details on When you have only two pennies left in the world,…
Beauty is found within. ~ “Belle” in Beauty and The Beast - View Quote Details on Beauty is found within. ~ “Belle” in Beauty and The…
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~ Leo Tolstoy - View Quote Details on It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty…
The night sky is a beautiful thing no matter where you are….. Look at it and tell me that you do not just forget about every woe you have ever had. Gaze at the starry night and you forget about everything, get lost in the lights, and focus on the night sky. For it is truly beautiful, because in it you get lost and can think of simply nothing else. If you ever think something is beautiful do not compare it to a supermodel or a manmade piece of art, but compare it to the firmament, God’s art. If you can find yourself getting lost and forgetting everything as when you look at the night sky then you have indeed found something truly beautiful. ~ Bob Hiteshew - View Quote Details on The night sky is a beautiful thing no matter where…
And lo, the Beast looked upon the face of Beauty. Beauty stayed Its hand and from that moment on, He was as one dead. - View Quote Details on And lo, the Beast looked upon the face of Beauty…
“Smash, smash the old laws” habitual beauty becomes narcotic eventually; it can be rediscovered, but only dialectically, by contrast, by the creation of new, brutally shocking beauty, beauty that seems barbarism at first. And the creation of such new beauty is the first step for anyone who would a god, and not a slave of dead gods. It is in the war between great seeking and great boredom that new beauty is born. ~ Robert Anton Wilson - View Quote Details on “Smash, smash the old laws” habitual beauty becomes narcotic eventually;…
The reason for the unreason with which you treat reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty. ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - View Quote Details on The reason for the unreason with which you treat reason,…
Sight is a big part of our existence, but it shouldn’t make us blind to other things. ~ Moira Doolan on beauty and aesthetics. - View Quote Details on Sight is a big part of our existence, but it…
But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty–the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life–thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine? ~ Plato ’s Symposium - View Quote Details on But what if man had eyes to see the true…