Beauty Quotes
-
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 -
If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
-
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Will Durant -
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
Herbert Spencer -
O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.
Sara Teasdale -
Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
Cate Blanchett -
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
Eugene Delacroix
-
There's always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. It is a very real way of looking at beauty.
Charlize Theron -
I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Ansel Adams -
Glorious Sunshine in Newmarket this a.m. No better feeling when perched on the back of a beauty.
Oisin Murphy -
What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
Boonaa Mohammed -
For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
J. R. R. Tolkien
-
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
People give up the earth for beauty.
Esther M. Friesner -
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
George Eliot -
Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
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 -
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
Dan Barker
-
My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
Elsie de Wolfe -
I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.
Esha Gupta -
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
Marcel Proust