Beautiful Quotes

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley

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

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

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

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

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)

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

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

Albert Einstein

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Unknown

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

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.

Anzia Yenerska

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

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

Christine Leefeldt

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

George Dennison Prentice

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

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mark A. Overby

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.

Terry Goodkind

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.

Eleanor H. Porte

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

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

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