Beauty Quotes

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...

It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that tw...

The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is ...

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or ...

Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a l...

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...

My second thoughts condemnAnd wonder how I dareTo look you in the eye.What right have I to swearEven...

I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive...

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is p...

Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the tormen...

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their e...

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without d...

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhapp...

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in ...

The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, th...

Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so natural...

Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrica...

I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering ...

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by ...

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me...

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so lon...

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that ...

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, ch...

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys...

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in...

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world ...

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

More and more, we take for granted that work must be destitute of pleasure. More and more, we assume...

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression un...

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s fac...

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your per...

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a pla...

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...

She was a Phantom of delightWhen first she gleam'd upon my sight;A lovely Apparition, sentTo be a mo...

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had b...

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in ...

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any forc...

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky ...

She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for...

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the...

And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't...

And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They...

Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why ...

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-...

On BeautyNo, we could not itemize the listof sins they can't forgive us.The beautiful don't lack the...

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the ma...

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and dr...

Oh fair enough are sky and plain,But I know fairer far:Those are as beautiful againThat in the water...

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind m...

You will not be here--I shall not be here--much lo

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by just...

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge t...

The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual le...

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibili...

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and...

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of di...

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have...

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar...

Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneven...

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions ...

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the ...

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive t...

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Jap...

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it wei...