Beautiful Quotes
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough - Edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.Nicholas Chamfort
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.Jonathan Edwards
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.D. H. Lawrence
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.Anzia Yenerska
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.Helen Kelle
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...Marquis de Sade, Justine
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.Frank Lloyd Wright
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.Van Wyck Brooks
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.J. K. Rowling
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.O. Henry
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.George Linley
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.Leonardo DaVinci
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.Mark A. Overby
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
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
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
