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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
Walt Whitman1819–1892“Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)”, in Complete Prose Works (1892)
- Art
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Genius
I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours.
Kate Winsletborn 1975Marie Claire, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009
- Women
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
- Women
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 17
Earth has not any thing to shew more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in it’s majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Composed upon Westminster Bridge (1807)In context
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
William Wordsworth1770–1850Composed upon Westminster Bridge (1807)In context
- Nature
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Easter, 1916 (1920)In context
- Change