A Quote by Stendhal

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Stendhal

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Beauty Happiness Many Styles Visions

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Stendhal
French - Writer
January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842

Being a cinematographer taught me a lot. I got to expedite the visions of many directors and learned how to navigate many styles and worlds.

Reed Morano

Having more money allows you to play in a certain way, but that's the beauty of the Premier League - there are so many different styles.

Phil Jones

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

Kevyn Aucoin

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

George Bernard Shaw

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

Amy Bloom

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

Stephen Jay Gould

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Ibrahim Babangida

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Hugh Hefner

My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

Aeriel Miranda

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Hugh Hefner

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.