Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

beauty

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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

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

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.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

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

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.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

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?

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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

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

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

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

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

Exuberance is beauty.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

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

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

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

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

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

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

I am a thing of beauty.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

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

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

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

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

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

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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

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.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

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.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

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.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

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

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

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.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

To love beauty is to see light.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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

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

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

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

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

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

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.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

In art economy is always beauty.

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

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.

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

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

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

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

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

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

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

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

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

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.

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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

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

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

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.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

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

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

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

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

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

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

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

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

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.

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

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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.

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

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

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

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

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.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

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

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.

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!

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.