Beauty Quotes - page 6

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more. (Menachem Begin)
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. View quote
George Eliot
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. View quote
John Donne
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. View quote
Cicero
The beauty of things must be that they end. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. View quote
Alexander Pope
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. View quote
Jonathan Ive
Beauty is the promise of happiness. View quote
Edmund Burke
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. View quote
Edmund Burke
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. View quote
David Attenborough
A general definition of civilization a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. View quote
Anne Rice
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. View quote
Anne Rice
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. View quote
Maya Angelou
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. View quote
Maya Angelou
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. (Alan Moore)
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. View quote
Joseph Addison
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind. View quote
John Dryden
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. View quote
John Dryden
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age. View quote
John Dryden