Quotations About / On: BEAUTIFUL

  • 41.
    A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
    (Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Letter, March 15, 1842, to Ernest Chevalier, trans. by William G. Allen. Correspondance, I, p. 102, Conard (1926-1933).)
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  • 42.
    I count three days
    since her beautiful lips
    touched the fine wheat
    her frail body
    disdains nourishment:
    she suffers....
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Hippolytus.")
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  • 43.
    Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
    (Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, "Giant Puppet Show," (September 10, 1995). About the debut of George, the political magazine edited by John F. Kennedy, Jr..)
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  • 44.
    The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
    (Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Cromwell, preface (1827).)
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  • 45.
    She was more beautiful than thy first love,
    But now lies under boards.
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "A Dream of Death.")
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  • 46.
    It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
    (O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910), U.S. short-story writer. "The Octopus Marooned," The Gentle Grafter (1908).)
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  • 47.
    All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
    (John Ruskin (1819-1900), British art critic, author. Modern Painters V, pt. 9, ch. 2 (1860).)
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  • 48.
    It was impossible to praise it as beautiful, but it was also impossible to damn it as quaint.
    (E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Where Angels Fear to Tread, ch. 2 (1905). Regarding a house in Monteriano.)
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  • 49.
    O beautiful for heroes proved
    In liberating strife,
    Who more than self their country loved,
    And mercy more than life!
    (Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), U.S. author. America the Beautiful (l. 17-20). . . Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.)
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  • 50.
    Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, April 3, 1850, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 177, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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