Beauty Quotes
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.John Donne
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
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
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
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
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
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts are not most thoughts banal? into such stunning forms, into beauty?Joyce Carol Oates
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.Unknown
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.George Santayana
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.Robert Frost
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
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
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
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.George Santayana
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.Unknown
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
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
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
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Michelangelo Buonarroti
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora".
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 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
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
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 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
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.Ovid
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
