Beauty Quotes

What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled element...

But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adver...

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when ...

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or el...

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is ...

...Minnesota, Wisconsin, all around there... has the kind of women I liked when I was younger. Pale-...

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasion...

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an impe...

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not ...

We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple yo...

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some...

She looked exactly like an angel. I know my jaw dropped a little, and I just stood there looking at ...

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ...

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each liv...

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wis...

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, be...

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than th...

By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much...

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful.

Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there...

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of peopl...

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracl...

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. N...

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that hu...

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, d...

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe...

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compass...

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the...

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be ha...

In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be t...

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, t...

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the ...

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of ...

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one ...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies...

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They de...

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal...

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things...

Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be alwa...

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But t...

Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitt...

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the p...

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if sh...

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long wil...

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted ...

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object enti...

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode...

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail,...

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or prod...

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode...

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his concep...

Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superfici...

Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dar...

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of...

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is...

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pa...

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in...

As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning i...

You, in bloom, heart, beloved,you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyesand I look at you lyin...

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your fo...

You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky,

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can...

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself...

It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost ...

There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan...

...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of ...

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make...

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Eart...

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, h...

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the cor...

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the mos...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against t...

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature...

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these...

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in ...

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is tha...

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my ex...

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possib...