Beauty Quotes
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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you
Rumi
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O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
Albert Einstein -
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Aristotle -
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
George Croly -
I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.
Hayley Atwell -
The thing about organic farming is that the produce will not look the same. Your tomato will not resemble the rich red one from the textbook, and that's the beauty of it.
R. Madhavan -
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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Until you have seen a herd of elephants, until you've see gazelles leap together, you can't imagine the beauty.
Garth Fagan -
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.
Eric Van Lustbader -
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Emond -
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
Arnold Gingrich -
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Mahatma Gandhi -
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
William Shakespeare
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Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
There is a time when it’s necessary to lean in, to say the hard things, to not be silent when one of our sisters is teetering toward compromise. This is how we “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (v. 2). This is how we live out the beauty of the gospel—together.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth -
Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
John Milton -
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
Aristotle -
He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and complexion: he embraced the old statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore -
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
Arthur Rimbaud -
A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
Sallust -
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
Ada Louise Huxtable