Beautiful Quotes
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)
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmond Freud
You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.Roy R. Gilson
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.Katherine Tynan Hinkson
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.Steve Martin
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Socrates, Crito, " (Plato)
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde
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
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.J. K. Rowling
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
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
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.Van Wyck Brooks
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
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
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Richard Milhous Nixon
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.Emerson
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
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
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
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
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
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
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
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.Unknown
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.Mohandas Ghandi
