Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. 2 wisdom & wit from Nikolai Gogol
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. 16 views from David Hume
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. 14 other sayings 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 more 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 sayings 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 views from Emile Zola
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. 25 wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
In art economy is always beauty. 10 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 more quotes 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 more quotes 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 views 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 sayings from George Henry Lewes
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. 25 more 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 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. 15 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Beauty can come in strange forms. 22 more quotes from James Dyson
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. 35 thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty without expression is boring. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. 35 more wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. 53 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 other sayings from Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. 22 other sayings from Robert Browning
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. 15 more views from Christopher Morley
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. 135 quotes 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 other 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 other sayings 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 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. 4 wisdom & wit from Albrecht Durer
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. 8 more quotes from Joseph Brodsky
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. 5 quotes from Gaston Bachelard
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? 4 more wisdom & wit from Paul Gauguin
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. 14 views from Jean Anouilh
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. 2 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 other thoughts 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 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. 53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. 6 quotes from Charles Kingsley
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. 18 other 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 other thoughts from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. 4 more wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts from Gustave Courbet
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. 5 other quotes from Alexis Carrel
Things are beautiful if you love them. 14 quotes 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 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. 12 views 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 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. 115 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 more quotes from Matthew Prior
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. 115 more sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. 3 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 quotes from George Sand
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. 7 more sayings from Walter Benjamin
The perception of beauty is a moral test. 117 sayings 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 quotes from Franz Kafka
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. 3 other thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from John Derek
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. 9 views from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? 6 more views 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 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. 4 more quotes 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 more quotes from James Baldwin
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. 8 more thoughts 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 quotes 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 sayings from H. P. Lovecraft
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. 19 more sayings from H. G. Wells
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. 21 other 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 quotes from Buddy Holly
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. 21 more 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 wisdom & wit from Ellsworth Huntington
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 19 quotes from John Keats
A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you. 24 quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. 19 views 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 other sayings 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 views 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 other quotes 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 quotes from John Keats
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. 29 more wisdom & wit 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 views from Sarah Bernhardt
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous. 6 sayings from Lillie Langtry
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. 4 views 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 quotes 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 other views 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 views from William C. Bryant
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. 32 views from William Blake
Beauty and the devil are the same thing. 10 views from Robert Mapplethorpe
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. 5 thoughts 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 views from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is power a smile is its sword. 3 quotes from John Ray
Exuberance is beauty. 32 wisdom & wit from William Blake
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. 3 sayings from George Edward Moore
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. 29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. 3 thoughts 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 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 views from Barry Cornwall
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. 7 other 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 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 sayings from John Milton
Beauty is not caused. It is. 26 more quotes from Emily Dickinson
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. 4 views from Redd Foxx
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. 7 other thoughts from John Greenleaf Whittier
Hold fast to youth and beauty. 2 wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Arden
I am a thing of beauty. 10 more wisdom & wit 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 views 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 views 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 sayings from Rudyard Kipling
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. 58 more views from Thomas Carlyle
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. 68 views 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 thoughts from Aldo Leopold
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. 4 sayings from Richard Le Gallienne
Beauty and folly are old companions. 96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
Beauty awakens the soul to act. 13 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 other wisdom & wit from Jane Seymour
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. 56 more views from Khalil Gibran
Beauty is the lover's gift. 10 views 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 other thoughts from Francis Bacon
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. 19 other views 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 views from Ouida
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. 3 other quotes from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. 13 other wisdom & wit from Dante Alighieri
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! 7 more wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. 45 other views from Thomas Fuller
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home. 14 more sayings from Loretta Young
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. 10 other quotes from John Donne
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. 10 other thoughts from John Donne
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. 26 other thoughts 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 more thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. 75 more quotes from Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. 75 other wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Virginia Woolf
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. 4 quotes from Richard Le Gallienne
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. 9 other thoughts from Gaius Sallustius Crispus
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. 13 wisdom & wit from Chanakya
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. 10 other quotes from William Congreve
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. 14 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Khalil Gibran
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power. 4 more quotes from George Meredith
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. 25 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Langston Hughes
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. 7 other quotes from Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty is whatever gives joy. 5 views 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 more quotes 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 other quotes from Louis Kahn
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. 45 quotes from John Ruskin
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. 73 more wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. 8 quotes from James Dean
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. 10 other quotes 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 other sayings from Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. 73 more sayings from Victor Hugo
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. 4 more wisdom & wit from Jean Ingelow
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. 2 thoughts 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 quotes from Jean Paul
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. 8 other quotes from Vernon Howard
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. 5 more quotes from Luis Barragan
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant. 2 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 other views from Michelangelo
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. 5 more wisdom & wit from Luis Barragan
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. 9 more wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Frank Norris