Beauty Quotes
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The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both.
Elizabeth Bear -
Expression is the mystery of beauty.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?
Boonaa Mohammed -
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.
Emile Gruppe -
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
Ansel Adams -
Five story Georgian terrace whose elegant proportions would have caused the most hardened Canadian property developer’s soul to weep to see such beauty—just prior to having the place gutted and filled with the latest in personality-free interior design.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?
Eugene O'Neill -
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
Herbert Spencer -
I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but it's a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is- The thing is you want to. You don't care what's coming you just want who your heart beats for.
Elizabeth Scott -
Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Hector Hugh Munro