Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage.
R K ElliottBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H G WellsThrough loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
André GideI slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty. (Beauty and Duty)
Ellen Sturgis HooperWhen I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R Buckminster FullerBeauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia It has not been in vain: the good, the enlightened of all ages and nations have found pleasure and consolation in the beauty of the rural earth. Prophets of old retired into the solitudes of nature to wait the inspiration of heaven. It was upon Mount Horeb that Elija experienced the mighty wind, the earthquake, and the fire; and, heard the small still voice. That voice is yet heard among the mountains!
Thomas ColeBeauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.
Robert Bridges'When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.'
Michael JacksonThy marvelous beauty. - Here is
She you seek!
William James LintonA beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E StevensonBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous HuxleyGreat sport has intellectual beauty.
R CarlisleBeauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom StoppardStrange 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.
AristotleThe reason that the all American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think
Farrah Fawcett-MajorsIt is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Alfred JarryIn marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William PennA bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar GracianA thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John KeatsUnfortunately, 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.
Susan SontagI know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
James ThomsonA poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
E B WhiteBeauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher MorleyDeath is the mother of beauty.
Wallace StevensBeauty is the purgation of superfluities
Michelangelo'Tis beauty calls, and glory shows the way
Nathaniel LeeBeauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Christian Nestell BoveeNatural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John UpdikeScientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit
Marie Curie'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsBeauty is only skin deep but ugly goes right to the f***ing bone
Billy ConnellyBeauty 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 GoetheMarriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorI want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
Isaac AlbenizBeauty and grace command the world.
Park BenjaminEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
ConfuciusA beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai Stevenson'I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.'
Liv TylerBeauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs
MontaigneThe beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
Herman MelvilleBeauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard ShawHe it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry YelvertonA witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power
George MeredithThe esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Karl KrausPoets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard Feynman The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
But beauty faded has no second spring. (The First Pastoral)
Ambrose PhilipsHow goodness heightens beauty!
Hannah MoreWe live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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