Beauty Quotes
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust
Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest 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 Alcot
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.Unknown
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.Ovid
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
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.Donald Culross Peattie
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
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
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.Roland Stahle
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.Rune Leknes
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.Susan Sontag
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.John Keats, -
