Beautiful Quotes
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.Spanish Prove
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Socrates, Crito, " (Plato)
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.Heinrich Heine
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.Friedrich Nietzsche
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.Anzia Yenerska
Every answer asks a more beautiful question.E e cummings
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.Michelangelo Buonarroti
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.Helen Kelle
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
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.Mark A. Overby
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.Hellen Kelle
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.Joan Rivers
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
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".
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.Heraclitus
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.George Linley
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.Henry James
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
