Beauty Quotes
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.Stephen Jay Gould
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.Kahlil Gibran
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.Mary Schmich
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.Pearl Buck
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.John Donne
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 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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.Louisa May Alcott
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.Anonymous
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.Thomas Jefferson
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.Robert Frost
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
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
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 world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.Turkish Prove
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.Louise Bogan
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
