Beautiful Quotes

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Bailey
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
Joan rivers - there is not one female comic who was beautiful...
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
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.
Anzia Yenerska
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
Marlene dietrich - the lover says how beautiful you are, now that...
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.
John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.
Alexander Hamilton
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Hadewijch of Antwerp
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
Heinrich Heine
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
Sloan Wilson
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
Tibetan Doctrine
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
W. Somerset Maugham
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. Henry
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Buddha
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.
John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.
Luis Cernada
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Lady Duff - Gordon
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.
George Dennison Prentice
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche