Beauty Quotes
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
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
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
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.Sara Teasdale
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 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
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.Donald Culross Peattie
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.Ovid
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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.Marie Curie
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.Mary Schmich
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
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
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
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.Unknown
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.John Donne
The pain passes. The beauty remains.Auguste Renoi
Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.Thomas Campbell
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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1
A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
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
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.Kahlil Gibran
Far away there 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 them.Louisa May Alcott
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
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.Unknown
