Beautiful Quotes

Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.

Alexander Hamilton

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

Alexander Woollcott

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

Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.

John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

Brian Andreas

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Sloan Wilson

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beeche

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

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

I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little... frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.

Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration

I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.

Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

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

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca