Beauty Quotes

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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

John Millington Synge

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Work has indeed been my best beauty treatment. I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit.

Helena Rubinstein

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson (poet)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes," she continued, "is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."

Oh who can tell the range of joy
Or set the bounds of beauty?

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Richard Le Gallienne

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Beauty … is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.

Wallace Stevens

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty—as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer