Beautiful Quotes

Isak dinesen - i think these difficult times have helped me to...
What a beautiful morning.
John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warne
George linley - thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful...
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich Fromm
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.
Soren Kierkegaard
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
I Ching
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.
Luis Cernada
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Lady Duff - Gordon
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Emerson
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
Roy R. Gilson
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
Ida Scott Taylor.
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little... frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.
Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.
George Dennison Prentice
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo DaVinci
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Kelle
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani