Beauty Quotes
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
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 we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.Sir Francis Bacon
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.Thomas Jefferson
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
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, Meditations
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.Demades
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume
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
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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
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
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora".
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
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Michelangelo Buonarroti
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts are not most thoughts banal? into such stunning forms, into beauty?Joyce Carol Oates
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.Anonymous
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
