Quotes about beauty and appearance

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“So he ignored the heat now and wondered about what he should do next. If he was going to show what he could do and really did it this time instead of saying he did when he didn't, he remembered that Bobo Kelton hung around the Rec Center a lot, every day, showing off as usual, laughing and sly, as usual. Jason looked at the clock. Ten minutes before three. Hot afternoon. He knew that Bobo would be at the Center. All he had to do was go there and wait. Across the street. A beautiful feeling of sweetness came over him. He lifted his head, let the feeling carry him for a while, like a fresh breeze in his heart. Then he went into the kitchen and took the butcher knife out of the drawer.”

Robert Cormier book The Rag and Bone Shop

Source: The Rag and Bone Shop (2000), p. 154

Louisa May Alcott quote: “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
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“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Sophia Loren photo

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.

John Lennon photo

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

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“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1
Elegies
Source: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

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“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“To my enemies I appear like a madman, to my admirers like a sage and to those who do not know me, I simply appear like a stranger in front of their senses.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

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“What if everything that you see, is more than what you see? The person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it or accept that there is more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.”

Shigeru Miyamoto (1952) Japanese video game designer and producer

Source: Nintendo Power

Shigeru Miyamoto photo

“I don't know what Mario will look like next; maybe he will wear metallic clothing with a red hat.”

Shigeru Miyamoto (1952) Japanese video game designer and producer

1991, before the release of Super Mario 64.

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“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

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“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

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“Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

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“I was interested in truth from the point of view of salvation just as much as in truth from the point of view of scientific certainty. It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, and I decided to follow both of them.”

Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) Belgian scientist and priest

AIKMAN, Duncan, New York Times Magazine, February 19, 1933, p. 3 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E7DA1539E033A2575AC1A9649C946294D6CF&nytmobile=0&legacy=true

Rabindranath Tagore photo

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“We are made with the atoms of the things that we consider beautiful or those which we admire and hate on a daily basis.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 8

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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Cleopatra VII photo

“Good sirs, take heart: —
We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make Death proud to take us. Come, away:
This case of that spirit now is cold. —
Ah, women, women!
Come; we have no friend
But resolution, and the briefest end.”

Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt

Source: As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, movie XV, (1623)

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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary