Beauty Quotes
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.Albert Einstein
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
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.
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.Hellen Kelle
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.Thomas Jefferson
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.Sir Francis Bacon
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.Arthur Cayley
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.Robert Frost
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.John F. Kennedy
Far away in the sunshine are my highest 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 Alcott
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
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 is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
