Beauty Quotes

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald Culross Peattie

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

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

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Arthur Cayley

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

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

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Turkish Prove

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

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Democritus

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.

Ellen Stugis Hoope

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

John Keats

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.

Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

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

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

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies