Beautiful Quotes
The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.Marlene Dietrich
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
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".
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
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.Tennessee Williams
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
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
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
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
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.Unknown
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
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
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
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
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.Kahlil Gibran
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.Mark A. Overby
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.D. H. Lawrence
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 greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.Roy R. Gilson
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
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
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
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
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