Quotes About Beauty

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose.

Beauty is an open letter of recommendation that wins hearts for us in advance.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just as it is not necessary for a perfectly beautiful person to be a great sculptor, or for a sculptor to be himself a beautiful person. In general it is a strange demand on a moralist that he should commend no other virtue than that which he himself possesses.

a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.

La música no expresa nunca el fenómeno, sino únicamente la escencia íntima, el en sí de todo fenómeno.

With young girls, nature seems to have in view what in the language of drama is called a striking effect as for a few years of her life, she is given a wealth of beauty and charm so that during those years she may capture the fancy of some man to such a degree that he takes care of her for the rest of her life.

Kitap zihnin en saf özü, en mükemmel suretidir.

O persoan? înzestrat? cu daruri mentale înalte ÅŸi rare, care e obligat? s? accepte o slujb? strict utilitar? este ca o vaz? preÅ£ioas?, decorat? cu cele mai minunate imagini, dar folosit? ca vas de buc?t?rie.

Adev?rul nu este o prostituat? care se arunc? de gâtul celor care n-o doresc; el este, dimpotriv?, o femeie frumoas? ÅŸi atât de distant?, încât nici cel care-i jertfeÅŸte totul nu poate fi sigur de favorurile ei.

Rien n'est beau gue le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable'' ''DoÄŸrudan baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey güzel deÄŸildir; sadece doÄŸru sevilmeye deÄŸerdir.

It will be remembered from the third book that aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful consists, to a large extent, in the fact that, when we enter the state of pure contemplation, we are raised for that moment above all willing, above all desires and cares; we are, so to speak, rid of ourselves.

Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposing the heart to favor the person who presents it.

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.

One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.

Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.

painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature's palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.

And we, my dears, everything we are and ever will be are just a twinkle in her eye,.

La nuit avait les coudes posés sur l'eau où ricochaientles fragiles échardes des étoiles filantes.