Beauty Quotes - Page 33

• Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

  Herbert Spencer

  Sculpture, Half, Emotion

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.72

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• Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sadness, Poet, Communion

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• Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rome, Soul, Athens

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.32, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Believe, Humans, Human Beings

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• Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
  Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
  Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
  I never sought to ask, I never knew:
  But, in my simple ignorance suppose
  The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ignorance, Eye, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodora”

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• Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Evil, Faces

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, Teach

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.93

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• The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

  Plato

  Wings, Soul, Causes

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• Beauty is a gift of God.

  Aristotle

  Gift From God

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• Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

  Aristotle

  People, May, Littles

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mean, Beautiful Things

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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• I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

  Langston Hughes

  Falling In Love, Jealous, Pretty Woman

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.19, Hill and Wang

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• I am waylaid by beauty.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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• Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  All Things

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

  Ovid

  Light, Jewels, Advice

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• It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

  Robert Breault

  Beautiful, Desire, Overcoming

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• It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

  Laozi

  Ideas, Heaven, Tinder

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• Beauty is the child of love.

  Havelock Ellis

  Children, Love Is

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• Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Race, Age

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

  Paul Valery

  Beautiful

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• All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

  George Santayana

  Honored

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

  James Joyce

  Long, Desire, World

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.329, Courier Dover Publications

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• Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Ornaments

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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• The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

  Max Beerbohm

  Distance, Eye, Half

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.110, The Floating Press

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• Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Eye, Church

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.72, Macmillan

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