Beauty Quotes
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.Vincent McNa
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.Rachel Carson
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.Ashley Smith
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
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.Arthur Cayley
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.Demades
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora".
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05
Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.Rune Leknes
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
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
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
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
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.Demophilus
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.Lao Tzu
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
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)
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.Helen Rowland
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.John Donne
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.Turkish Prove
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust, The War with Catiline
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts are not most thoughts banal? into such stunning forms, into beauty?Joyce Carol Oates
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
