Quotes about beauty

"My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?"

Kotomichi on beauty   

"The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life."

Kraus, Karl on beauty   

"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."

Lebowitz, Fran on beauty
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"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful."

L'Enclos, Ninon De on beauty
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"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."

Lubbock, Sir John on beauty   

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

Marlowe, Christopher on beauty   

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

Maugham, W. Somerset on beauty   

"The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."

Maugham, W. Somerset on beauty   

"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety."

Mendelssohn, Felix on beauty   

"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."

Mere, George B. on beauty   

"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."

Michelangelo on beauty
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"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."

Milman on beauty   

"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on beauty   

"How goodness heightens beauty!"

More, Hannah on beauty   

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

Morley, Christopher on beauty
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"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."

Morley, Christopher on beauty   

"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."

Mumford, Lewis on beauty   

"Beauty 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."

Nathan, Robert on beauty
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"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."

Navajo, Edward A. on beauty
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"Beauty is whatever gives joy."

Nibley, Hugh on beauty
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on beauty   

"In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on beauty   

"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so."

O'Hara, Frank on beauty
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"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature."

Paglia, Camille on beauty   

"Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us."

Pascal, Blaise on beauty
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"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game."

Paz, Octavio on beauty   

"The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring."

Philips, Ambrose on beauty   

"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"

Picasso, Pablo on beauty   

"Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity."

Pindar on beauty
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"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity."

Plato on beauty   

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine"

Plotinus on beauty   

"Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly."

Plotinus on beauty   

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

Poe, Edgar Allan on beauty
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"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Pope, Alexander on beauty   

"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."

Porter, Katherine Anne on beauty   

"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."

Prager, Emily on beauty   

"A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands."

Proverb, English on beauty   

"Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume."

Proverb, French on beauty
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"The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Proverb, Persian on beauty   

"Beauty is a good letter of introduction."

Proverb, Portuguese on beauty