Beauty Quotes
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
Honore de Balzac
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“The snow crystals . . . come to us not only to reveal the wondrous beauty of the minute in Nature, but to teach us that all earthly beauty is transient and must soon fade way. But though the beauty of the snow is evanescent, like the beauties of the autumn, as of the evening sky, it fades but to come again.”
Wilson Bentley
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.
Elizabeth Barton
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.
Benjamin Zander
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Real beauty is never vain.
Ellen Buckingham Mathews
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The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
James Anthony Froude
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
Plato
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
Plotinus
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I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It is full of beauty, romance and tradition, but also power, schemes and bribery. It's Italy in a nutshell, with all its incredible mixture of beauty and betrayal.
Cosima Spender
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
Confucius
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The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.
Benjamin Jealous
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
Oscar Wilde
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
Albert Cossery
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I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.
Marilyn Monroe
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Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay, And night devour its flaming hues alway?
Clark Ashton Smith
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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.
Wes Bentley
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For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Richard Morris
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
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She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.
Eva Ibbotson
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Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
William Shakespeare