#beauty

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#eyes #fire #nourishment #sustenance #women

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate. ↗

— Nick Sagan

#love #beauty

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. ↗

— Xenophon

#displays #him #himself #his #horse

She ripped the wild bun down from the crown of her head, and then brushed her long hair with her fingers. I couldn’t stop staring while she rewrapped it and tied it back again. I imagined that this was what she looked like in the morning, and then had to think about the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan to keep my dick from getting hard. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#pidgeon #pizza #travis-maddox #beauty

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. ↗

— Loretta Young

#achievement #beautiful #being #born #personal

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#celebrity-culture #celebrity-gossip #celebutard #dark-humor #fake

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this? ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#happiness #idiots #intelligence #life #beauty

‎"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?" "It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #beauty

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds ↗

— Kami Garcia

#love #beauty

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#been #despised #except #gift #outward