Beautiful Quotes
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.Katherine Tynan Hinkson
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
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.Marlene Dietrich
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.D. H. Lawrence
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Richard Milhous Nixon
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.Leonardo DaVinci
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
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.Marilyn Monroe
The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.Marlene Dietrich
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
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.Alexander Woollcott
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.Heinrich Heine
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.Joan Rivers
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.Van Wyck Brooks
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmond Freud
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.Kahlil Gibran
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.Lady Duff - Gordon
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.Michael Pupin
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
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
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.O. Henry
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.Friedrich Nietzsche
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.Sloan Wilson
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.George Linley
