Beautiful Quotes

D. h. lawrence - how beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right...
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Theresa
Pearl sydenstricker buck - to serve is beautiful, but only if it is done...
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
Roy R. Gilson
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Kahlil Gibran
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Bailey
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.
George Dennison Prentice
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...
Marquis de Sade, Justine
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark A. Overby
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
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.
Terry Goodkind
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
I Ching
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates, Crito, " (Plato)
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Heraclitus
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
What a beautiful morning.
John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough - Edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Nicholas Chamfort
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
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
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
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
The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
Marlene Dietrich
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
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
Sophia Loren
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Kelle
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little... frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.
Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.
Eleanor H. Porte