A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. 4 thoughts from Jean Ingelow
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. 2 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 wisdom & wit from Jean Paul
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. 8 sayings from Vernon Howard
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. 5 wisdom & wit from Luis Barragan
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant. 2 quotes 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 thoughts from Michelangelo
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. 5 quotes from Luis Barragan
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. 9 other 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 quotes 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 views from Nikolai Gogol
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. 16 quotes from David Hume
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. 14 thoughts from Edward Gibbon
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. 25 sayings from Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. 16 views 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 sayings from John Muir
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. 38 wisdom & wit 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 views from Emile Zola
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. 25 views 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 other 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 thoughts 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 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 other 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 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty! 25 quotes 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 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. 15 more quotes from Christopher Morley
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Beauty can come in strange forms. 22 more thoughts from James Dyson
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. 35 other thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty without expression is boring. 135 more views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. 35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. 53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. 135 quotes 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 views from Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. 22 quotes from Robert Browning
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. 15 more quotes from Christopher Morley
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. 135 thoughts 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 sayings 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 other 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 more quotes from Walt Whitman
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. 11 views from Salvador Dali
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. 24 other quotes from Joseph Addison
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. 135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. 4 quotes from Albrecht Durer
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. 8 sayings from Joseph Brodsky
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. 5 other views from Gaston Bachelard
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? 4 other quotes from Paul Gauguin
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. 14 more thoughts from Jean Anouilh
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. 2 more thoughts 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 quotes from Thomas Mann
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. 3 views from Edwin Way Teale
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. 57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. 53 more sayings from Marilyn Monroe
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. 6 views from Charles Kingsley
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. 18 quotes 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 thoughts from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. 4 other thoughts from Rosalind Russell
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. 3 more views from Edwin Way Teale
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. 2 sayings from Gustave Courbet
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. 5 sayings from Alexis Carrel
Things are beautiful if you love them. 14 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit from Rosalind Russell
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. 12 thoughts 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 quotes from Munshi Premchand
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. 115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. 115 other views 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 more sayings 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 quotes from Douglas Horton
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. 45 more sayings 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 more views from Junichiro Tanizaki
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. 2 other quotes from Matthew Prior
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. 3 other thoughts 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 other quotes from George Sand
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. 7 views from Walter Benjamin
The perception of beauty is a moral test. 117 thoughts 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 more quotes from Franz Kafka
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. 3 views from Theophile Gautier
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. 6 quotes from Sara Teasdale
I think love and beauty are what life is all about. 2 quotes from John Derek
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. 9 other thoughts from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? 6 other 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 other quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. 4 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 more views 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 views from H. P. Lovecraft
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. 19 more quotes from H. G. Wells
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. 21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. 2 other views from Buddy Holly
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. 21 other quotes from Leo Tolstoy
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. 3 quotes from Alfred Jarry
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. 2 other thoughts from Ellsworth Huntington
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 19 wisdom & wit from John Keats
A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you. 24 other quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. 19 wisdom & wit from John Keats
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. 13 sayings from Jean Rostand
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. 9 quotes from Hannah Arendt
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. 16 quotes 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 more quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. 3 views 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 thoughts 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 other 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 more quotes from Sarah Bernhardt
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous. 6 quotes from Lillie Langtry
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. 4 sayings 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 quotes from Sarah Bernhardt
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. 19 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. 19 more thoughts 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 quotes from William Temple
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. 5 other 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 quotes from Robert Mapplethorpe
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. 5 sayings 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 sayings from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is power a smile is its sword. 3 other wisdom & wit from John Ray
Exuberance is beauty. 32 sayings from William Blake
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. 3 more views from George Edward Moore
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. 29 more quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. 3 quotes 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 quotes 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 sayings from Voltaire
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! 3 other quotes from Barry Cornwall
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. 7 more quotes from Ninon de L'Enclos
The key to education is the experience of beauty. 29 other views from Friedrich Schiller
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. 12 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 sayings from John Milton
Beauty is not caused. It is. 26 more thoughts from Emily Dickinson
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. 4 thoughts from Redd Foxx
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. 7 views from John Greenleaf Whittier
Hold fast to youth and beauty. 2 sayings from Elizabeth Arden
I am a thing of beauty. 10 more quotes from Frank Sinatra
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. 11 thoughts from Manuel Puig
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. 5 views from Jean Genet
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. 2 sayings 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 more thoughts 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 views from Rudyard Kipling
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. 58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. 75 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. 68 more sayings from Samuel Butler
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. 23 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Aldo Leopold
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. 4 other quotes from Richard Le Gallienne
Beauty and folly are old companions. 96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Beauty awakens the soul to act. 13 more quotes from Dante Alighieri
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. 37 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from William Congreve
Beauty is the promise of happiness. 37 thoughts from Edmund Burke
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. 67 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
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. 2 quotes from Ouida
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. 3 thoughts from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. 13 more quotes from Dante Alighieri
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
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 sayings from Max Eastman
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. 29 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Loretta Young
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. 10 quotes from John Donne
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. 10 more wisdom & wit from John Donne
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. 26 more views 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 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. 19 other thoughts 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 thoughts from Helen Rowland
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. 30 more 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 sayings from Virginia Woolf
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. 4 wisdom & wit from Richard Le Gallienne
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. 10 thoughts from William Congreve
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. 67 more views from Francis Bacon
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. 14 more sayings 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power. 4 views from George Meredith
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. 25 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 more thoughts from Langston Hughes
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. 7 quotes from Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty is whatever gives joy. 5 quotes 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Victor Hugo
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. 3 sayings from Louis Kahn
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. 45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. 73 views from Victor Hugo
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. 8 more views from James Dean
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. 10 wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. 16 quotes 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 sayings 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 views from Victor Hugo