Quotations About / On: BEAUTY

  • 41.
    Vanquished in life, his death
    By beauty made amends:
    The passing of his breath
    Won his defeated ends.
    (Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867-1902), British poet, critic. By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (l. 29-32). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 42.
    I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
    (Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), U.S. photographer. As quoted in On Photography, Appendix, by Susan Sontag (1977).)
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  • 43.
    Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 205 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 44.
    As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Art," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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  • 45.
    The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
    (Sarah Bernhardt (1845-1923), French actor. The Art of the Theatre, ch. 3 (1924). Written in 1923.)
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  • 46.
    The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist. repr. In Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry (1976). Die Fackel (no. 406/12, Vienna, October 5, 1915).)
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  • 47.
    Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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  • 48.
    Their beauty has thickened.
    Something is pushing them
    To the side of their own lives.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Afternoons.")
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  • 49.
    Lies grow dark around us: will
    The statue of your beauty walk?
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Latest Face.")
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  • 50.
    Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). Notes on The Laocoön (engraved c. 1820).)
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