#beau

And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely. ↗

— Natsuo Kirino

#japanese #beauty

All my fellows, why license is not deposed on the beautiful eyes of a beautiful lady? They fire at men like a bullet. They cut surely as the sword. ↗

— stone carving Satpara Valley Baltistan

#beauty

I would say larger than life, but I've never understood that expression. What is larger than life? To sit in the front row and look up at a beautiful girl's face two stories high and have the vibrations of her voice massaging your legs is to be reminded of the size of life. So I sit in the front row. If I leave with a crick in my neck and a fading hard-on it was a good seat. I'm not a dirty man. I'm a man who wanted to be as large as life. ↗

— Krauss

#life #the-history-of-love #beauty

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beauty

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning. ↗

— C.S. Harris

#death #woman #beauty

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#always #asked #beautiful #been #guess

I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#beautiful #being #clothes #dresses #fact

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

#beautiful #hour #moments #mr #quarters

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#beauty #nothing #often #subdued #ugliness

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#among #beautiful #being #being beautiful #cannot