beauty

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

14 other views from Edward Gibbon

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

2 other quotes from Douglas Sirk

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

12 wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts from George Henry Lewes

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

15 other views from Christopher Morley

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

22 quotes from Robert Browning

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 views 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 other wisdom & wit from Audrey Hepburn

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

4 more quotes from Paul Gauguin

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

57 sayings from Blaise Pascal

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

7 wisdom & wit from Harriet Beecher Stowe

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

3 quotes from Edwin Way Teale

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

2 other quotes from Bernard Berenson

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau

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

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

2 quotes from Junichiro Tanizaki

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

12 wisdom & wit 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

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

19 sayings from Percy Bysshe Shelley

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

5 views 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 quotes from Hans Urs von Balthasar

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

3 views from Alfred Jarry

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

19 more thoughts from John Keats

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

9 wisdom & wit from Hannah Arendt

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

16 views from Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

16 views from Wallace Stevens

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

6 other sayings from Sarah Bernhardt

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

19 more quotes from John Keats

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

10 thoughts from Fyodor Dostoevsky

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

3 more quotes 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 views 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 quotes from Voltaire

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

12 more wisdom & wit from Gene Tierney

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

5 sayings from Jean Genet

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

8 thoughts 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 sayings from Rudyard Kipling

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

75 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

8 thoughts from Jane Seymour

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

19 other quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

13 more views from Chanakya

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 other views from Khalil Gibran

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

23 other sayings from Helen Rowland

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 quotes from Virginia Woolf

Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

3 thoughts from William Wycherley

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

8 thoughts from James Dean

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

105 more sayings from Albert Einstein

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

2 other quotes from Frank Norris