A Quote by Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Quote Topics

Beauty Absence Flaw Itself

Quote Author

Havelock Ellis
British - Psychologist
February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939

You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?” “No, you don't.” “Pray tell,” she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?” He grinned. “You used to be English.

Julie Garwood

I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.

Hector Tobar

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

Ilona Andrews

I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw.

Marshall Goldsmith

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

Allan H. Meltzer

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

Holly Black

Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.

Raheem DeVaughn

A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful.

Mod Sun

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Holly Black

As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.

Bernard Marcus

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

Jacob Collins

Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most scientific work never gets noticed. Study after study has shown that most scientific papers are read by almost no one, while a small number of papers are read by many people.

James Surowiecki

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

William J. H. Boetcker

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Ayn Rand

Whenever we remember a series of events, we remember them different. We are constantly changing. It's a flaw, but on the other hand, when we say a word, the meaning is not what you put into it. Rather, the meaning of the word is all of the past usages of that word. Like this cloud that makes up the meaning of the word. It's your subject if you write. For instance what you put in that word and what you assume it means, even its flaw. It has a general agreement.