Unfortunately, moral
beauty in art - like physical
beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual
beauty. Moral
beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
View quotes by Susan SontagStrange that the vanity which accompanies
beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great
beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the
beauty was gone.
View quotes by AristotleI recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep
beauty - a sunken
beauty.
View quotes by Jean GenetMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme
beauty - a
beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
View quotes by Bertrand RussellLove built on
beauty, soon as
beauty, dies (Elegies 'The Anagram')
View quotes by John DonneMay she be granted
beauty and yet not,
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught.
View quotes by William Butler YeatsBeauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The
beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
View quotes by E M ForsterBeauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion.
Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
View quotes by Camille Paglia Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of
Beauty, Fare thee well! ['Isle of
Beauty']
View quotes by Thomas BaylyFor he being dead, with him is
beauty slain, And,
beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Venus and Adonis line 1019
View quotes by William ShakespeareI slept, and dreamed that life was
beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty. (
Beauty and Duty)
View quotes by Ellen Sturgis HooperZest is the secret of all
beauty. There is no
beauty that is attractive without zest.
View quotes by Christian Dior'
Beauty is truth, truth
beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
View quotes by John KeatsHere lies a most beautiful lady,
Light of step and heart was she;
I think she was the most beautiful lady
That ever was in the West Country.
But
beauty vanishes;
beauty passes;
However rare - rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?
('Epitaph', 1912)
View quotes by Walter De La MareSince love grows within you, so
beauty grows. For love is the
beauty of the soul.
View quotes by Saint AugustineBeauty? What's that?
View quotes by Larry WallThen
beauty is its own excuse for being.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty always promises, but never gives anything.
View quotes by Simone WeilBeauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
View quotes by Andre BretonExuberance is
beauty.
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