Beautiful Quotes

Diane ackerman - it began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,...
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Michelangelo buonarroti - what spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot...
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
Katherine Tynan Hinkson
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
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warne
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parke
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.
Luis Cernada
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Kelle
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
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
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
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
Brian Andreas
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Kelle
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.
Unknown
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
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D. H. Lawrence
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...
Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.
Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
W. Somerset Maugham
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?
E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
Marlene Dietrich
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
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
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates, Crito, " (Plato)
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley