Beauty Quotes
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
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.Mary Schmich
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
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
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
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
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 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
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Pearl Buck
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
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.Jelaluddin Rumi
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 is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
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.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
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
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.Native American Prove
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The pain passes. The beauty remains.Auguste Renoi
When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.Prophet Mohammed
