beauty
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
4 other views from Jean Ingelow
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
2 sayings from Alfred de Vigny
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
18 other quotes from Jean Paul
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
8 more quotes from Vernon Howard
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
2 other quotes from Florenz Ziegfeld
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
16 views from Michelangelo
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
5 other wisdom & wit from Luis Barragan
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
9 quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
2 views from Frank Norris
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
2 more quotes from Nikolai Gogol
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
16 thoughts from David Hume
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
14 quotes from Edward Gibbon
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
25 other quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
16 quotes from David Hume
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
13 quotes from John Muir
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
38 sayings from William Hazlitt
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
6 quotes from Emile Zola
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
25 views from Charles Baudelaire
In art economy is always beauty.
10 wisdom & wit from Henry James
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
2 more quotes from Douglas Sirk
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
10 views from Henry James
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
12 more views from Thornton Wilder
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
25 views from Charles Baudelaire
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
9 views from George Henry Lewes
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
25 views from Charles Baudelaire
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
25 wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
15 more wisdom & wit from Christopher Morley
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Beauty can come in strange forms.
22 other quotes from James Dyson
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty without expression is boring.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
4 quotes from Albrecht Durer
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
22 other quotes from Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
22 sayings from Robert Browning
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
15 quotes from Christopher Morley
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
4 other quotes from Albrecht Durer
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
14 views from Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
14 wisdom & wit from Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
30 more thoughts from Walt Whitman
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 other quotes from Salvador Dali
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
24 sayings from Joseph Addison
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
4 sayings from Albrecht Durer
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
8 wisdom & wit from Joseph Brodsky
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
5 more sayings from Gaston Bachelard
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
4 more quotes from Paul Gauguin
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
14 sayings from Jean Anouilh
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
2 sayings from John Masefield
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
11 other thoughts from Thomas Mann
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
3 more thoughts from Edwin Way Teale
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
57 wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
6 quotes from Charles Kingsley
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
18 sayings from Pearl S. Buck
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
7 more quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
4 other quotes from Rosalind Russell
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
3 views from Edwin Way Teale
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
2 more thoughts from Gustave Courbet
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
5 other quotes from Alexis Carrel
Things are beautiful if you love them.
14 more quotes from Jean Anouilh
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
2 more thoughts from Bernard Berenson
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
4 quotes from Rosalind Russell
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
12 quotes from Franz Kafka
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
2 quotes from W. H. Davies
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
3 other quotes from Munshi Premchand
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
3 quotes from Richard Armour
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
16 quotes from Douglas Horton
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
45 thoughts from Aldous Huxley
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
2 more quotes from Junichiro Tanizaki
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
2 quotes from Matthew Prior
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
3 quotes from Petrarch
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
9 thoughts from George Sand
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
7 other quotes from Walter Benjamin
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
2 more quotes from Junichiro Tanizaki
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
12 quotes from Franz Kafka
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
3 quotes from Theophile Gautier
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
6 quotes from Sara Teasdale
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
2 more quotes from John Derek
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
9 other sayings from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
6 quotes from Sara Teasdale
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
19 views from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
4 wisdom & wit from Henry Drummond
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
3 views from James Baldwin
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
8 wisdom & wit from Maria Mitchell
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
5 quotes from Maria Montessori
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
2 sayings from Hans Urs von Balthasar
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
6 more quotes from H. P. Lovecraft
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
21 other wisdom & wit from Laurence J. Peter
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
2 wisdom & wit from Buddy Holly
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
21 other quotes from Leo Tolstoy
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
3 more quotes from Alfred Jarry
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
2 more quotes from Ellsworth Huntington
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
19 thoughts from John Keats
A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
24 other quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
19 other quotes from John Keats
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
13 wisdom & wit from Jean Rostand
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
9 other views from Hannah Arendt
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
16 quotes from Wallace Stevens
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
24 quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
3 other thoughts from Alexander Alekhine
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
16 more quotes from Wallace Stevens
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
19 thoughts from John Keats
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
29 sayings from Groucho Marx
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
6 views from Sarah Bernhardt
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
6 wisdom & wit from Lillie Langtry
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
4 more thoughts from Shinichi Suzuki
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
6 thoughts from Sarah Bernhardt
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
19 more views from John Keats
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
19 quotes from John Keats
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
6 other thoughts from William Temple
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
5 more sayings from William C. Bryant
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
32 other quotes from William Blake
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
10 wisdom & wit from Robert Mapplethorpe
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
5 more quotes from Marianne Moore
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
10 wisdom & wit from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is power a smile is its sword.
3 quotes from John Ray
Exuberance is beauty.
32 thoughts from William Blake
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
3 quotes from George Edward Moore
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
3 views from John Philip Sousa
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
7 wisdom & wit from Joseph Wood Krutch
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
78 more quotes from Voltaire
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
3 quotes from Barry Cornwall
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
7 other thoughts from Ninon de L'Enclos
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
29 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
12 other views from Gene Tierney
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
5 other sayings from John Milton
Beauty is not caused. It is.
26 other thoughts from Emily Dickinson
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
4 quotes from Redd Foxx
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
7 views from John Greenleaf Whittier
Hold fast to youth and beauty.
2 thoughts from Elizabeth Arden
I am a thing of beauty.
10 other sayings from Frank Sinatra
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
11 other thoughts from Manuel Puig
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
5 other sayings from Jean Genet
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 sayings from Walter Hagen
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
8 views from Matthew Arnold
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
12 more quotes from Rudyard Kipling
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
68 other views from Samuel Butler
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
23 other quotes from Helen Rowland
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
4 sayings from Aldo Leopold
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
4 more quotes from Richard Le Gallienne
Beauty and folly are old companions.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
13 more quotes from Dante Alighieri
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
37 other thoughts from Edmund Burke
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
8 sayings from Jane Seymour
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran
Beauty is the lover's gift.
10 quotes from William Congreve
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
37 other sayings from Edmund Burke
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
67 thoughts from Francis Bacon
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
19 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
13 other wisdom & wit from Chanakya
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
2 more thoughts from Ouida
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
3 views from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
13 views from Dante Alighieri
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
19 other thoughts from Edgar Allan Poe
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
7 thoughts from Homer
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
7 quotes from Max Eastman
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
14 other sayings from Loretta Young
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
10 views from John Donne
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
10 quotes from John Donne
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
26 other wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
56 sayings from Khalil Gibran
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
75 more views from Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
19 other quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
23 wisdom & wit from Helen Rowland
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
30 more sayings from Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
30 views from Virginia Woolf
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
4 wisdom & wit from Richard Le Gallienne
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
9 more quotes from Gaius Sallustius Crispus
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
13 more quotes from Chanakya
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
10 views from William Congreve
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
14 thoughts from Loretta Young
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
3 wisdom & wit from William Wycherley
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
56 more views from Khalil Gibran
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
4 wisdom & wit from George Meredith
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
25 other wisdom & wit from Simone Weil
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
7 quotes from Langston Hughes
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
7 thoughts from Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
5 more quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 quotes from George Jean Nathan
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
5 other sayings from Andre Breton
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
73 views from Victor Hugo
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
45 thoughts from John Ruskin
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
8 sayings from James Dean
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
10 sayings from Charles Lamb
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
16 other wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
73 more quotes from Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
73 sayings from Victor Hugo