#beau

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #complex #driven #generous #i

Le sens de la toilette féminine est manifest: il s'agit de se 'parer' et se parer c'est s'offrir; les feministes hétérosexuelles se sont montrées naguère sur ce point aussi intransiseantes que les lesbiennes: elles refusaient de faire d'elles-même une marchandise qu'on exhibem elles adoptaient des tailleurs et des feutres secs; les robes ornées, décolletées leurs semblaient le symbole de l'ordre social qu'elles combattaient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#feminism #feminists #symbol #beauty

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible! ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #beauty

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs. ↗

— Steve Martin

#beauty

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. ↗

— Bertha von Suttner

#beautiful #help #love #most #most beautiful

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines. ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#belfast #coastlines #countryside #saw #some

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#beholds #face #her #mirror #own

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#flower #gather #her #petals #plucking

Flint
 An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud. A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world’s desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds fire. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#beauty

I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn’t all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for a best friend. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#young-adult #young-adult-romance #beauty