#beauty

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#beauty #building #daughter #eldest #god

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#am #beautiful #beauty #finished #i

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#beauty #doubt #ever #immoral #looked

I love my beauty. It's not my fault. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#fault #i #i love #love

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. ↗

— Jean Genet

#cunning #deep #i #recognize #ruthless

Here's the thing: I am not beautiful. I'm pretty. I'll allow that much. Pretty. But I'm not the girl boys long for. ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#pretty #beauty

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. ↗

— Jude Law

#always #angry #beauty #directors #give

If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would always have bright eyes and dazzling smiles, and bad people would have scraggly hair and warty noses. That way if you saw one of them coming, you could cross to the other side of the street and avoid them altogether. But this is not a proper world. In our world, many bad people look quite nice, and many good people are not beautiful at all. Many good people aren't pretty or cute or even interesting-looking. ↗

— Brit Trogen

#imagination #inner-beauty #margaret-and-the-moth-tree #novel #people

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#death #life #mystery #beauty