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
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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 love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.Alexis Carrel
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
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
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.Robert Frost
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.Helen Rowland
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.Ovid
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.
Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.Thomas Campbell
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
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
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
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
Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.Demades
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.Prophet Mohammed
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.Barbara Colorose
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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
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
