#beau

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#beauty

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity. ↗

— Matt Ridley

#science #beauty

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever. ↗

— Mal Peet

#live-forever #ugly #beauty

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed. ↗

— Johnnie Snipes

#beauty

The world is a much more beautiful and incredible place than you think, and each of us has a great deal of power to make it more so. ↗

— Oie Osterkamp

#world #beauty

Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York... New York..." New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander ↗

— Karla M. Nashar

#beauty

The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun here was different than the sun in Nebraska. It seemed gentler, more golden, deeper. The shadows it cast seemed more profound. But September could not be sure. When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean that it is brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#fairytales #fantasy #beauty

For a moment she lay still in the big bed, blinking sleepily, loath to move. And then she realized that the angel’s song hadn’t stopped on her waking. Silence sat up. The tantalizingly beautiful voice was coming from the half-open door to Mickey O’Connor’s room. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#scandalous-desires #silence #beauty

...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink on the leaflets he's been distributing suddenly seemed, how he realized, all at once, just how beautiful a woman can be. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beauty

¿Pero cuánto durará esta belleza? A las mujeres nos entristece pensar en eso ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#beauty