Beauty Quotes - Page 34

• Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

  Philip Massinger

  Beautiful, Thinking, Swans

  Philip Massinger (1761). “Dramatic Works: A new way to pay old debts. The great Duke of Florence. The unnatural combat. The bashful lover”, p.133

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• From out of pain, beauty.

  Irving Stone

  Pain

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.

  Kafu Nagai

  Knowing, This Life, Worthless Life

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• There's no tiling moral about beauty.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Moral

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• Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Emotional, Development, Way

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

  Jean Anouilh

  Real, If There Is A God, Graves

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”

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• A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Beautiful, Years, Confusion

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Beautiful, Wrinkles, I Am Beautiful

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.130, Kodansha America

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• Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.

  Luci Shaw

  Moving, Taken, Needs

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• I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Understanding, Needs, Followers

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• True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

  George Herbert

  Flames, Borrowed, True Beauty

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• In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

  John Walford

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Taken, Artist, Order

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• Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

  John Walford

  Artist, Dubious, Belief

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• Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.

  John Walford

  Christian, Order, Body

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• Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in Christological terms-as disorder redeemed.

  John Walford

  Disorder, Emphasis, Term

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• God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

  Jacques Maritain

  Love Is, Our Love, Causes

  Jacques Maritain (2007). “Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays”, p.31, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sweet, Men, Temples

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• All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Beautiful, Dies

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• He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Skins, Firsts, Puritan

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

  Pablo Casals

  Moving, People, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Thinking, Expression, Mind

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• It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beautiful, Way, Mysterious

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.33, George Bernard Shaw

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• Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Half, World, Trickery

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