Quotes about beauty

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  1. More lovely virtue, in a lovely form.

  2. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

  3. You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

  4. "What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

  5. ... the prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.'''

  6. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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  7. What is really beautiful must always be true.

  8. He is beautiful even to enemy eyes.

  9. Trust not too much to that enchanting face;

    Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.

  10. Ah, lovely boy, trust not too much to your bloom!

  11. She is the sum of nature's universe.

    To her perfection all of beauty tends.

  12. It is because simplicity and vastness are both beautiful that we seek by preference simple facts and vast facts; that we take delight, now in following the giant courses of the stars, now in scrutinizing the microscope that prodigious smallness which is also a vastness, and now in seeking in geological ages the traces of a past that attracts us because of its remoteness.

    p. 23