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- Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability — they should go hand in hand.
- Donald Norman, 2003
- Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
- Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), NPR interview
- Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), Howards End
- Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
- Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
- Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act I, sc.3
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