beauty
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
15 views from Christopher Morley
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac
Beauty can come in strange forms.
22 sayings from James Dyson
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
35 sayings from Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty without expression is boring.
135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
35 views from Rabindranath Tagore
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
53 more sayings from Honore de Balzac
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
4 sayings from Albrecht Durer
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
22 sayings from Robert Browning
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
15 quotes from Christopher Morley
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
4 quotes from Albrecht Durer
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
14 sayings from Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
14 wisdom & wit from Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
30 other quotes from Walt Whitman
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 quotes from Salvador Dali
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
24 quotes from Joseph Addison
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
4 thoughts from Albrecht Durer
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
8 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Brodsky
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
5 more views from Gaston Bachelard
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
4 quotes from Paul Gauguin
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
14 thoughts from Jean Anouilh
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
2 more sayings from John Masefield
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
11 more sayings from Thomas Mann
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
3 wisdom & wit from Edwin Way Teale
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
53 more thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
6 more quotes from Charles Kingsley
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
18 more thoughts from Pearl S. Buck
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
7 more quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
4 quotes from Rosalind Russell
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
3 thoughts from Edwin Way Teale
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
2 quotes from Gustave Courbet
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
5 other thoughts from Alexis Carrel
Things are beautiful if you love them.
14 sayings from Jean Anouilh
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
2 quotes from Bernard Berenson
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
4 quotes from Rosalind Russell
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
12 more sayings from Franz Kafka
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
2 sayings from W. H. Davies
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
3 views from Munshi Premchand
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
3 sayings from Richard Armour
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
16 wisdom & wit from Douglas Horton
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
2 quotes from Junichiro Tanizaki
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
2 quotes from Matthew Prior
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
3 more quotes from Petrarch
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
9 more quotes from George Sand
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
7 thoughts from Walter Benjamin
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
2 quotes from Junichiro Tanizaki
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
12 wisdom & wit from Franz Kafka
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
3 wisdom & wit from Theophile Gautier
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
6 thoughts from Sara Teasdale
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
2 wisdom & wit from John Derek
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
9 quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
6 more quotes from Sara Teasdale
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
19 views from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
4 other views from Henry Drummond
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
3 quotes from James Baldwin
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
8 quotes from Maria Mitchell
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
5 other thoughts from Maria Montessori
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
2 wisdom & wit from Hans Urs von Balthasar
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
6 more quotes from H. P. Lovecraft
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
19 sayings from H. G. Wells
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
21 more thoughts from Laurence J. Peter
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
2 quotes from Buddy Holly
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
21 more sayings from Leo Tolstoy
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
3 thoughts from Alfred Jarry
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
2 quotes from Ellsworth Huntington
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
19 other quotes from John Keats
A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
24 other sayings from Adlai E. Stevenson
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
19 quotes from John Keats
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
13 other sayings from Jean Rostand
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
9 sayings from Hannah Arendt
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
16 more thoughts from Wallace Stevens
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
24 wisdom & wit from Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
3 thoughts from Alexander Alekhine
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
16 wisdom & wit from Wallace Stevens
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
19 other views from John Keats
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
29 more quotes from Groucho Marx
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
6 quotes from Sarah Bernhardt
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
6 more views from Lillie Langtry
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
4 quotes from Shinichi Suzuki
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
6 more sayings from Sarah Bernhardt
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
19 thoughts from John Keats
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
19 wisdom & wit from John Keats
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
6 views from William Temple
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
5 wisdom & wit from William C. Bryant
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
32 quotes from William Blake
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
10 other wisdom & wit from Robert Mapplethorpe
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
5 quotes from Marianne Moore
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
10 other sayings from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is power a smile is its sword.
3 wisdom & wit from John Ray
Exuberance is beauty.
32 thoughts from William Blake
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
3 quotes from George Edward Moore
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
29 other quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
3 wisdom & wit from John Philip Sousa
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
7 more thoughts from Joseph Wood Krutch
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
78 other quotes from Voltaire
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
3 wisdom & wit from Barry Cornwall
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
7 quotes from Ninon de L'Enclos
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
12 more quotes from Gene Tierney
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
5 other thoughts from John Milton
Beauty is not caused. It is.
26 quotes from Emily Dickinson
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
4 sayings from Redd Foxx
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
7 thoughts from John Greenleaf Whittier
Hold fast to youth and beauty.
2 other views from Elizabeth Arden
I am a thing of beauty.
10 thoughts from Frank Sinatra
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
11 other sayings from Manuel Puig
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
5 more quotes from Jean Genet
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 quotes from Walter Hagen
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
8 quotes from Matthew Arnold
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
12 other quotes from Rudyard Kipling
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
75 views from Benjamin Disraeli
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
68 other views from Samuel Butler
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
23 other views from Helen Rowland
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
4 views from Aldo Leopold
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
4 more quotes from Richard Le Gallienne
Beauty and folly are old companions.
96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
13 other sayings from Dante Alighieri
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
37 more wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
8 thoughts from Jane Seymour
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Beauty is the lover's gift.
10 other thoughts from William Congreve
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
67 more thoughts from Francis Bacon
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
13 quotes from Chanakya
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
2 thoughts from Ouida
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
3 views from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
13 thoughts from Dante Alighieri
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
19 sayings from Edgar Allan Poe
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
7 thoughts from Homer
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
7 more views from Max Eastman
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
29 sayings from W. Somerset Maugham
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
14 more quotes from Loretta Young
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
10 views from John Donne
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
10 wisdom & wit from John Donne
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
26 more sayings from E. M. Forster
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
56 other views from Khalil Gibran
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
23 other quotes from Helen Rowland
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
30 other quotes from Virginia Woolf
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
4 more thoughts from Richard Le Gallienne
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
67 sayings from Francis Bacon
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
9 views from Gaius Sallustius Crispus
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
13 quotes from Chanakya
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
10 wisdom & wit from William Congreve
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
67 views from Francis Bacon
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
14 views from Loretta Young
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
3 other thoughts from William Wycherley
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
4 quotes from George Meredith
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
25 more views from Simone Weil
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
7 views from Langston Hughes
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
7 more thoughts from Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
5 sayings from Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 sayings from George Jean Nathan
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
5 other sayings from Andre Breton
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
73 other sayings from Victor Hugo
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
45 views from John Ruskin
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
8 wisdom & wit from James Dean
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
10 sayings from Charles Lamb
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
16 thoughts from Havelock Ellis
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
73 more quotes from Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
73 more wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
4 more thoughts from Jean Ingelow
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
2 other quotes from Alfred de Vigny
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
18 thoughts from Jean Paul
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
8 thoughts from Vernon Howard
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
2 other wisdom & wit from Florenz Ziegfeld
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
16 wisdom & wit from Michelangelo
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
5 more quotes from Luis Barragan
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
9 quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
2 quotes from Frank Norris
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
2 other quotes from Nikolai Gogol
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
16 thoughts from David Hume
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
14 more wisdom & wit from Edward Gibbon
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
16 quotes from David Hume
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.
13 other quotes from John Muir
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
6 other quotes from Emile Zola
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
25 more sayings from Charles Baudelaire
In art economy is always beauty.
10 more thoughts from Henry James
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
2 quotes from Douglas Sirk
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
10 wisdom & wit from Henry James
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
12 views from Thornton Wilder
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
25 other sayings from Charles Baudelaire
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
9 quotes from George Henry Lewes
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
25 other quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
25 other wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson