Beautiful Quotes - page 8

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. (Oscar Wilde)
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I love London society I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. View quote
Saki
"Each man kills the things he loves". I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed. View quote
Pete Doherty
There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. View quote
Tom Holt
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful. View quote
Francis Collins
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm so indebted to her for. View quote
W. C. Fields
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. View quote
John Muir
A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. View quote
John Steinbeck
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. View quote
Carl Jung
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? (Douglas Adams)
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. View quote
Anatole France
People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say «I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.». View quote
Audrey Hepburn
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. View quote
Rumi
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. View quote
Keanu Reeves