Beautiful Quotes
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
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
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmond Freud
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".
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
Every answer asks a more beautiful question.E e cummings
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.Marlene Dietrich
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.Spanish Prove
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".
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
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds
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
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
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.Thomas Huxley
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
