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BEAUTY

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Beauty is only skin-deep.
--Thomas Adams (c.1583—1652)
English clergyman.
_The Blacke Devill or the Apostate_ [1615]

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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly
goes clear to the bone.
--Saying, in Arthur Block _Murphy's Law_ [1977]

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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty;
but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.

Mother: Ah, gosh, didn't Bea look lovely?
Father: What did she do? Fall in a vat of perfume?
Mother: You know when we were younger, of the
three sisters, she used to be considered the pretty
one.
Father: Some contest.
--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935— )
American actor, screenwriter, and director.
_Radio Days_ [1987 film]

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

The best part of beauty is that which
no picture can express.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.

A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day,
Just like the strain of a haunting refrain,
She'll start upon a marathon
And run around your brain.
--Irving Berlin (1888—1989)
American songwriter.
"A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" [1919 song]

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Your beauty should not come from outward adornment,
such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry
and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of
your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and
quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.
--Bible
"Peter" 3:3-4 NIV


A beautiful woman lacking discretion and modesty
is like a fine gold ring in a pig's snout.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 11:22 TLB


But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his
appearance or his height, for I have rejected him.
The Lord does not look at the things man looks at.
Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord
looks at the heart."
--Bible
"Samuel" 16:7 NIV

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman
as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of
courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a
great deal to make a woman beautiful.
--Jacqueline Bisset (1944— )
British-born American actress.
_Los Angeles Times_ [16 May 1974]
"Actress with 3 Countries"

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Tears fell from my eyes — yes, weak and foolish as it
now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and
for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly
assured me, no remnant existed.
--Marguerite Blessington (1789—1849)
Irish novelist and poet.
_The Confessions of an Elderly Lady_ [1838]


There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
--Marguerite Blessington (1789—1849)
Irish novelist and poet.
_Desultory Thoughts and Reflections_ [1839]

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Oh, grieve not, ladies, if at night,
Ye wake to feel your beauty going;
It was a web of frail delight,
Inconstant as an April snowing.
--Anna Hempstead Branch (1875—1937)
American poet.
_Grieve Not, Ladies_

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport.
But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
--Julie Burchill (1959— )
English journalist.
_Sex and Sensibility_ [1992], "Kiss and Tell"

She walks in beauty like the night,
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
"She Walks in Beauty" [1815]

He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from starlike eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
--Thomas Carew (1595—1639)
English poet.
_Poems_ [1640] "Disdain Returned"

It was only much later that I realized
that not being beautiful was a blessing
in disguise. It forced me to develop my
inner resources. I came to understand that
women who cannot lean on their beauty and
need to make something on their own have
the advantage. I cannot think of anything
more terrible than looking back at the end
and feeling that you have not written well
in the Book of Life.
--Charlotte Chandler
"The Ultimate Seduction" [1984]

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop
kick a hole in a stained glass window.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_Farewell, My Lovely_, ch. 13 [1940]


I let go of her wrists, closed the door with my
elbow and slid past her. It was like the first time.
'You ought to to carry insurance on those,' I said.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_The Little Sister_ [1949]

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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,
'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
--Anton Chekhov (1860—1904)
Russian dramatist and short-story writer.
_Uncle Vanya_, act 3 [1897]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
--Richard Cumberland (1732—1811)
English dramatist.
"The Observer" [1788]

Beauty's but skin deep.
--John Davies of Hereford (c.1565—1618)
English poet.
"A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife" [1616], st. 13

If you want to be happy living a king's life
Never make a pretty woman your wife.
[...]
That's from a logical point of view
To always love a woman uglier than you.
--Raphael De Leon (1908—1999)
Trinidadian calypso singer and songwriter.
"Ugly Woman" [1934 song]

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers
and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
In Willard Scott _The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune:
The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age_, p. 194 [2002].

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne (1572—1631)
English poet and dean of St. Paul's [1621—1631].
_Elegies_ "The Anagram" [c. 1595]

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly;
for if the devil hears it he will echo it many times.
--Francis Alexander Durivage (1814—1881)
American poet and playwright.

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
"Beauty," _Nature_ [1836]


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays: First Series_, Essay XII, "Art" [1841]


Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_The Conduct of Life_ [1860]

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Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
--Desiderius Erasmus (1469—1536)
Dutch humanist and theologian.

As a beauty I'm not a great star.
Others are handsomer far;
But my face — I don't mind it
Because I'm behind it;
It's the folks out in front that I jar.
--Anthony Euwer (1877—1955)
American author.
Quoted in Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia
Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 102 [1989].

Handsome is that handsome does.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
_A History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_ [1749], bk. IV, ch. XII

I believe long habits of virtue have a
sensible effect on the countenance.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
In one of the "Busy-Body Papers"
"American Weekly Mercury" [18 February 1729].

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
--Edward Gibbon (1737—1794)
English historian.
Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou
_Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 224 [1882].

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order
that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the
beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
Quoted in James M. Trotter _Music and Some Highly Musical People_ [1880].

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
--Baltasar Graciαn (1601—1658)
Spanish Jesuit philosopher.

Plain women know more about men than
beautiful ones do.
--Katharine Hepburn (1907—2003)
American stage and motion-picture actress; winner of four Academy Awards.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.
--Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696—1782)
Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher.
_Introduction to the Art of Thinking_ [1789]

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset
if you are poor or have not any sense.
--Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930)
American humorist.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It
exists merely in the mind which contemplates
them.
--David Hume (1711—1776)
Scottish philosopher.
"Of the Standard of Taste" [1757]

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see
beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty
never grows old.
--attributed to Franz Kafka (1883—1924)
Czech novelist.

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
--John Keats (1795—1821)
English poet.
"Endymion" bk. I, l. 1 [1818]


When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
--John Keats (1795—1821)
English poet.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 [1819] in _Poems_ [1820]

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I'm tired of all this business about beauty being
only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you
want — an adorable pancreas?
--Jean Kerr (1923—2003)
American writer, [wife of Walter Kerr].
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" in _The Snake Has All the Lines_ [1958]

[Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) speaking:]
Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
--"King Kong" [1933]
Screenplay by James Creelman and Ruth Rose.

Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily.
It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory
if they once walked down a street.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
_Traffics and Discoveries_ [1904], "Mrs. Bathurst"

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle
and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness
sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there
is a Light from within.
--Elisabeth Kόbler-Ross (1926—2004)
Swiss-born psychiatrist and author.
_To Live Until We Say Goodbye_ [1978]

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest
harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.
--Jean de La Bruyθre (1645—1696)
French essayist and moralist.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage.
--Arthur J. Lamb (1870—1928)
American songwriter,
"A Bird in a Gilded Cage" [1900]

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of
God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
--Fran Lebowitz (1946— )
American humorist.
_Metropolitan Life_ "Manners" [1978]

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For attractive lips,
speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes,
seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure,
share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair,
let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise,
walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

--Sam Levenson (1911—1980)
American humorist.
_Time Tested Beauty Tips_

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Li Po (701—762)
Chinese poet.

A lover of beauty and wine, Li Bo met his
death appropriately. According to popular
tradition, he was out in a boat one evening.
Trying to embrace the reflection of the moon,
which shone full on the water, he fell in and
drowned.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
--Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
English dramatist and poet.
"Doctor Faustus" act V, sc. 1 [1604]

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Golda Meir (1898—1978)
A founder and the fourth prime minister [1969—1974] of the State of Israel.

"I was never a beauty," said the late
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. "There
was a time when I was sorry about that, when
I was old enough to understand the importance
of it and, looking in any mirror, realized it
was something I was never going to have.
Then I found what I wanted to do in life, and
being called pretty no longer had any
importance."

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I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual.
But what goes with it can be a burden . . . people take a lot for
granted and expect an awful lot for very little. A sex symbol
becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
--Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (1926—1962)
American actress.
Interview in "Life" [July 1962].

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's
best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
--attributed to Yoko Ono (1933— )
Japanese poet and songwriter.

When the candles are out all women are fair.
--Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?)
Greek philosopher and biographer.
"Conjugal Precepts" in _Morals. On the Training of Children_

Champagne is the only wine a woman can
drink and still remain beautiful.
--attributed to Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
(Madame de Pompadour) (1721—1764) Maitresse-en-titre to Louis XV.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_The Rape of the Lock_ [1712] canto V, l. 33

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato,
a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat;
Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a
solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than
all the letters of recommendation in the world;
Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and
Ovid, that it was a favor bestowed by the gods.
--Francis Quarles (1592—1644)
English poet.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 35 [1908 ed.].

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
--Charles Reade (1814—1884)
English novelist and playwright.
_White Lies_ [1860]

[Explaining why he still painted when his hands were twisted with arthritis:]
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
--Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841—1919)
French painter.

In the factory we make cosmetics;
in the store we sell hope.
--Charles Haskell Revson (1906—1975)
American businessman.
Quoted in Andrew P. Tobias _Fire and Ice_ [1976].

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are
the most useless; peacocks and lillies for instance.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_Stones of Venice_, vol I, ch. 2, sec. 17 [1851]

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To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Sonnets_ [1609], Sonnet 104, line 1


Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_As You Like It_ [1599] I, iii


Is the jay more precious than the lark because his
feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better
than the eel because his painted skin contents the
eye?
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Taming of the Shrew_, iv, 3 [1593—1594]

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Beauty without virtue is like a fair flower that
has an offensive odor. But true beauty bathes
in that light without which nothing is beautiful.
Beauty is a gift of God, like the rain.

He allows the rain to fall upon the just and the
wicked, and He gives beauty not only to the good,
but even to the wicked. Wicked beauty strikes the
eye, but the inner beauty of grace wins the soul.

--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television.
_Guide to Contentment_ [1970]

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The most beautiful thing in the world is,
of course, the world itself.
--Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
American Modernist poet.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
Speaking at Radcliffe College, quoted in Bill Adler _The Stevenson Wit_ [1965].

[Quoting her father's advice:]
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you
are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.
--Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880—1958)
Scottish author and palaeobotanist.
"Reader's Digest" [January 1944]

By plucking her petals, you do not gather
the beauty of the flower.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright,
and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_Stray Birds_ [1916]

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Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
--Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pιrigord (1754—1838)
French statesman.
Quoted in _Revelations of the Life of Prince Talleyrand_
(M. Colmache ed.) [2nd edition, 1850]

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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_The Conduct of Life_ [1860], "Beauty"

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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you
destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with
you, by using them ill.
--Sir William Temple (1628—1699)
English statesman and diplomat.

What, when drunk, one sees in other
women, one sees in Garbo sober.
--Kenneth Tynan (1927—1980)
English theater critic.
_Curtains_, pt. 2 [1961]

Brains are never a handicap to a girl if she
hides them under a see-through blouse.
--Bobby Vinton (1935— )
American singer.

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Down with beauty!
--cry of Nigerian Muslims, rioting against the 2002 Miss World contest in Lagos.

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aesthete [S-theet], noun:
One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
Ex.: Beijing, with its stolid, square buildings and wide, straight roads,
feels like the plan of a first-year engineering student, while Shanghai's
decorative architecture and snaking, narrow roads feel like the plan of
an aesthete.
--"Sky's the Limit in Shanghai", _Los Angeles Times_, April 25, 1999

comely [KUHM-lee], adjective:
1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; good-looking.
2. Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.

pulchritude [PUL-kruh-tood; -tyood], noun:
That quality of appearance which pleases the
eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.
Ex.: "Where Linda has her infectious charm,
Polly has only her empty pulchritude."
--Hannah Betts,
"Sixty years on, and it's still a gel thing,"
_Times (London)_, February 3, 2001


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