Beauty Quotes
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.Arthur Cayley
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.Alexis Carrel
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.Vincent McNa
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Pearl Buck
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust, The War with Catiline
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.Confucius
Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.Louisa May Alcot
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.Richard Feynman
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.Barbara Colorose
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.Native American Prove
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.Dr. Dale E. Turne
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.Thomas Tusse
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.George Santayana
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
