Beauty Quotes

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The 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 Melville

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
Herbie Hancock

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean Paul Richter

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney Harris

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress
Paul Dirac

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities
Michelangelo

This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love
Moulin Rouge

What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace
Edward Young

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

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
Isaac Albeniz

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved
Maria Edgeworth

Exuberance is beauty.
H G Wells

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
W H Auden

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William Penn

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise
Felicia Hemans

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest
Walter Landor

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart
Leigh Hunt

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Emily Dickinson

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos

Poets 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

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning

The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest... The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendour and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.
John D Rockefeller

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
G H Lewes

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

Through 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 Gide

Beauty is a frail good
Ovid

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls (Jubilate Agno)
Christopher Smart

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around
Cybil Shepard

We 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

Scientific 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

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Virginia Woolf

Death is the mother of beauty.
Wallace Stevens



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