#beauty

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. ↗

— Richard Armour

#deep #full #only #people #skin

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#image #infinite #itself #sensible

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#excellent #hath #proportion #some #strangeness

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#empire #give #happy #make #pain

Of course [Barbie] is beautiful and glamorous, but I also like to think that she’s intelligent, confident, good-humored, well-traveled, gracious, well-read, compassionate, and rich, rich, rich—but from the fruits of her own labor and ingenuity. In short, she’s got it all! ↗

— Bryon Lars

#fashion #inspirational #beauty

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#delicate #extraordinarily #japan #learn #like

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ↗

— James Beattie

#beauty #immortal #tomb

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control. ↗

— Farid al-Din Attar

#dance #inspirational #love #truth #beauty

When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#beauty

But he is an Italian," was Umberto's sensible reply. "He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you?...principessa?" I looked down at my flip-flops. "I guess I'm toast. ↗

— Anne Fortier

#shoes #beauty