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Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?
George MacDonald1824–1905Phantastes (1858)
I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
- Movies
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
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
William Morris1834–1896The Beauty of Life (1880)
- Art
She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context
- Clever Jabs
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Women
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XVIn context
- God
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XXIVIn context
- Love
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IVIn context
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
- Good & Evil
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Love
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Love
O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t!
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by MirandaIn context
- Hope
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Friendship
- Love
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act I, Scene III, spoken by RosalindIn context