Beauty Quotes
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
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, Meditations
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.Turkish Prove
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
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
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
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.Robert Frost
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
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
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.Albert Einstein
