Beauty Quotes

Hellen kelle - it is better to be happy for a moment and be...
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Miss piggy - beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
George bancroft - beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite....
Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.
Thomas Campbell
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.
Mary Schmich
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
Richard Feynman
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Alighieri Dante
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.
John Milton
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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 world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Jelaluddin Rumi
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.
Stephen Jay Gould
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.
Unknown
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.
Demophilus
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
Louisa May Alcott
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
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
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.
Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet