#beauty

The breathless idyl of their engagement gave way, first, to the intense romance of the more passionate relationship. The breathless idyl left them, fled on to other lovers; they looked around one day it and it was gone, how, they scarcely knew. Had either of them lost the other in the days of the idyl, the love lost would have been ever to the loser that dim desire without fulfillment which stands back of all life. But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

I am a thing of beauty. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#beauty #i #i am #thing

He slid over to me and grabbed me closer to him. My smile fell from my face with the unexpectedness of it. His hands cupped my face, his lips hovering above mine. “You seriously want to know, Tess?” He closed the space and claimed my mouth with an urgent, hot, delving kiss. He smiled. “You are sexy, in your own goofball way, you’re sweet and beautiful and smart and funny and, although you kiss to the point where I feel like I want to go back for seconds, you’re my best friend, and that’s why I don’t want to tap that. ↗

— C.J. Duggan

#boys #romance #summer #young-adult #beauty

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#bit #come #corny #i #i do

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beauty #come #death #desires #dreams

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beauty #i #i do #just #know

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#beautiful woman #beauty #between #charming #difference

Physical beauty is such a strange thing. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#physical #strange #strange thing #such #thing

The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#local-government #small-is-beautiful #beauty

Did you know, that one night; one moonless, clear, shining night; with the shadowy silhouettes of trees crisp against the star-filled sky – I, on the high, level terrace of my flat, stretched out my hand! Against all odds and possibilities of unbelief and grief – a life of searchings, discontent, and a nagging sense of unreality… A spider-web intuition of a spread-out, intricate illusion that wilfully withheld the truth from me. ↗

— Radhika Mukherjee

#longing #our-particular-shadows #questioning #radhika-mukherjee #beauty