Beauty Quotes

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Ovid

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

Beauty fades; dumb is forever.

Judge Judy, From her book "Beauty fades; dumb is forever".

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.

Ellen Stugis Hoope

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

D. H. Lawrence

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

Native American Prove

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Unknown

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.

John Stuart Mill

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 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

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald Culross Peattie

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

Mary Schmich

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jelaluddin Rumi