Beauty Quotes

George bancroft - beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite....
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian nestell - the beauty seen is partly in him who sees it....
Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.
Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
Richard Feynman
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts are not most thoughts banal? into such stunning forms, into beauty?
Joyce Carol Oates
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Mere
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
Francis quarles - socrates called beauty a short - lived tyranny;...
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Colorose
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust, The War with Catiline
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
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
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.
John Milton
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
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
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
John F. 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
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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 kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Unknown
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parke
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
Ovid