Beauty Quotes - page 4

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. View quote
Northrop Frye
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. View quote
Jane Austen
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. View quote
George Gissing
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. View quote
Francis Bacon
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. View quote
John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. View quote
John Muir
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. View quote
George Sand
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. (Virginia Woolf)
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. View quote
William Blake
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. View quote
Sophia Loren
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour. View quote
Thomas Nashe
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. View quote
William Wordsworth
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. View quote
Anne Frank
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. View quote
André Gide
Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. (Michelangelo)
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. View quote
Chaim Potok
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. View quote
Hannah Arendt
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. View quote
Sydney J. Harris