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Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. — Plato

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty. — Karen Armstrong

It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing that had happened. — Sherwood Anderson

A thing of beauty, like an approaching storm. It was hard not to respect, even though you knew it was likely to erupt any moment. — J.L. Langley

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature ... and the thing which pleases us. — Blaise Pascal

Life,disassembled and
reassembled into a thing of beauty,reflect GOD love in a manifestation of unlimited grace. — Peter Adejimi

Well, for one thing," she said, "her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark. — Melissa Bank

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. — Holly Black

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. — Seamus Heaney

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — G.K. Chesterton

The gracious thing to do was to accept the beauty of the opportunity if it was given — Tessa Hadley

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do. — Jonathan Franzen

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds. — Leah Hager Cohen

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever. — Richard Briers

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason. — Georgette Leblanc

Her face, I'm afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever. She — Roald Dahl

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. Those as says otherwise are losing. — Mark Lawrence

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls. — Lynn Robinson

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty. — Eli Broad

O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits. — Gaspara Stampa

A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you. — Neil Leckman

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility. — Jacob K. Javits

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. — Kahlil Gibran

The realization of such a thing cannot possibly be as beautiful as its imagining, of course. — Alyson Foster

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. — John Keats

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect. — Eudora Welty

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. — Boris Pasternak

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of. — Narendra Modi

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. — Ken Thompson

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him. — Lev Grossman

perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing. — Stephen King

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty. — Philip Gulley

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all? — Whitney Otto

Their chemistry was a thing of erotic beauty, his sexual experience a weapon against which she had no defense. — Nalini Singh

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him. — Sugar Ray Leonard

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands ... It is here about us or it is nowhere. — Allen Tucker

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it. — Amelie Nothomb

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. — Helen Rowland

To write is to release the soul. So write. What right have we to leave a thing of such beauty bottled within ourselves? — Brian A. McBride

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. — Anthony Burgess

Every beautiful thing in the world is rooted in some kind of pain. — Bryant McGill

And what is that thing which you promise to provide?- 'The beauty of the soul and the simplicity of happiness', he replied. — Aporva Kala

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. — Ossie Davis

Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next. — Yasmin Mogahed

The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself. — Gregory Maguire

This thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever. — Irene Nemirovsky

A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise. — Harvey Fierstein

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone. — Richard Paul Evans

The call-and-response rituals of geeks were a thing of beauty, and allowed said geeks to identify each other across time and space. — Atom Yang

I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky — Yoshida Kenko

There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested. — Edna Robinson

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? — Jane Austen

War is a thing of beauty, as I've said before, and those who say otherwise are losing. — Anonymous

A horse is a thing of beauty ... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. — Xenophon

Palatable. Easier to overlook. Forgotten, or at least smoothed into some pearl-like blandness, if not a thing of beauty. — Cherie Priest

You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love. — Amy Harmon

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world. — Jonathan Edwards

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. — Carl Sagan

I am a thing of beauty. — Frank Sinatra

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing. — Donna Tartt

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place. — Hafez

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. — Mark Lawrence

One thing have I desired of the Lord, one thing will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to behold the beauty of the Lord. — Timothy Keller

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. — Mark Twain

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. — Boris Gelfand

The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature. — Ambrose Bierce

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty.
Leto II — Frank Herbert

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women. — Peter Beard

Lysandra's smile was a thing of savage, dark beauty. — Sarah J. Maas

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at. — James Gray

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. — Philip Jose Farmer

A thing of beauty is a boy forever. — Carl Van Vechten

99 percent of every beautiful thing you ever knew escaped and went back out into the world where you vaguely remembered it. — Ron Padgett

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. — Plutarch

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. — Walter Benjamin

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

God can turn a life that is broken into a thing of beauty. — Mandy Fender

You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic. — Vic S. Sussman

If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that. — Teller

When you learn to enjoy every little event and you learn to see beauty in every little thing, you will reach the door of eternal happiness. — Debasish Mridha

A thing of beauty is a joy forever . . . it will never pass into nothingness. — Ruta Sepetys

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky