Beauty

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

"Are not all young men ready to trust the promise of a pretty face and to infer beauty of soul from beauty of feature? An indefinable impulse leads them to believe that moral perfection must co-exist with physical perfection."

"Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend."

"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring."

"Everything changes, but beauty remains."

"She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light."

"Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness."

"There is in true beauty, as in courage, somewhat which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."

"Beauty is the lover's gift."

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

"I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course — is her hairdresser."

"The giant female bodybuilder proves unthinking people wrong who believe feminine beauty can never be harmonious with well developed musculature."

"I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams."

"The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love."

"Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare."

"It is a prerogative of beauty to always be respected."

"I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic."

"The beautiful are never desolate; But some one always loves them—God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them."

"Beauty has this power, that in an instant, a moment, it brings with it the desire of whoever sees and knows it, and when it reveals or promises some way of reaching and enjoying it, with powerful fervor it sets fire to the soul of whoever contemplates it, just like the means whereby dry prepared gunpowder is easily lit by any spark that touches it."

"No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad."

"Verily by Beauty it is that we come at , yet not by Reason at Beauty."

"The reason for the unreason with which you treat reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty."

"Is it the right of this, our generation, in its selfish materialism, to destroy these things because we are blinded by the dollar sign? Beauty—and all the values the derive from beauty-are not measured and evaluated in terms of the dollar."

"Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation, fashioning her love-realm in the mind of man, attempteth every mortal child with influences of her divine supremacy."

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

"What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or wingëd air."

"I am not afraid of being thought a sentimentalist when I stand here tonight and tell you that I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth."

"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds, in the ebb and flow of the tides; in the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in these repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

"Beauty will be convulsive or not at all."

"Beauty is pain and there's beauty in everything."

"[B]eauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

"Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul."

"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."

"Beauty without expression tires."

"Each ornament about her seemly lies, By curious chance, or careless art composed."

"Beauty is beautiful because it is doomed to perish!"

"I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It's difficult to describe because it's an emotion. It's analogous to the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls everything in the whole universe: there's a generality aspect that you feel when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so differently are all run "behind the scenes" by the same organization, the same physical laws. It's an appreciation of the mathematical beauty of nature, of how she works inside; a realization that the phenomena we see result from the complexity of the inner workings between atoms; a feeling of how dramatic and wonderful it is. It's a feeling of awe — of scientific awe — which I felt could be communicated through a drawing to someone who had also had this emotion. It could remind him, for a moment, of this feeling about the glories of the universe."

"Any color, so long as it's red, Is the color that suits me best, Though I will allow there is much to be said For yellow and green and the rest."

"The most economical way of obtaining good results is to apply the great, fundamental principles of art; and depend on them for beauty, rather than upon the use of either applied ornament or more expensive materials."

"There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty."

"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. [...] The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us to much of a prima donna."

"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a greater temptation to the ego."

"Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и приумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать её!"

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That is precisely what makes its pursuit so interesting."

"Il n'y a de vraiment beau que ce qui ne peut servir à rien; tout ce qui est utile est laid."

"In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow."

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

"A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded."