Beauty Quotes

William golding - among the virtues and vices that make up the...
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
John stuart mill - solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is...
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 but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley
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
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Colorose
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
Native American Prove
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
The pain passes. The beauty remains.
Auguste Renoi
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
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
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Mere
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland
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
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
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)
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.
Louise Bogan
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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