#bette

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#anything #asks #beautiful #beauty #better

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ↗

— Jane Austen

#alone #better #endearing #enough #fashion

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#attend #better #guide #other #ourselves

I have learned how to better handle things as they come. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#come #handle #how #i #i have learned

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. ↗

— Mario Batali

#everyone #fast #food #just #makes

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. ↗

— Richard Bach

#better #first #friends #know #meet

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#alter #altered #better #spontaneously #things

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#better #break #coming #could #divisive

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better! ↗

— Joanna Baillie

#better #day #disgusting #everything #him

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. ↗

— Joanna Baillie

#better thing #pampered #perhaps #pride #starved