Beautiful Quotes

W. somerset maugham - when you have loved as she has loved, you grow...
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...
Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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
Lady duff - gordon - put even the plainest woman into a beautiful...
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
Sloan Wilson
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)
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
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
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
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 truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
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 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
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
Michael Talbot
What a beautiful morning.
John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington
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
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 had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Kelle
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...
Sharon Olds
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
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
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
George Eliot