Beauty Quotes

Christian nestell - the beauty seen is partly in him who sees it....
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
Unknown - practice random acts of kindness and senseless...
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
Sir walter raleigh - remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou...
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Mere
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!
Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
The pain passes. The beauty remains.
Auguste Renoi
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
Chinese Prove
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
John Owen
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
Native American Prove
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
Richard Feynman
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Colorose
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.
Rune Leknes
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Louise Bogan
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allen Poe
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Alighieri Dante
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts are not most thoughts banal? into such stunning forms, into beauty?
Joyce Carol Oates
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.
John Milton
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.