A Quote by Mark Twain

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

Mark Twain

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Beautiful Rarely True

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

Harlan Coben

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

David Hume

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Hermann Weyl

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

Roy DeCarava

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Tom Stoppard

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

Helen McCloy

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

John Hurt

Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

It's true that if you love what you do, it rarely feels like work.

Shannon Bream

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

Karen Marie Moning

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Vivienne Westwood

I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.