Quotes About Beauty

EL-FAYOUMY: You're very handsome, Caiaphas. CAIAPHUS THE ELDER: If I am, it's 'cuz God made me, not 'cuz you said so. Good day.

I study her visage, the fluted snow fields and couloirs of ice scoured by avalanches. Horizontal bands of rock curve downward, as if bearing the weight of the sky. Her summit is like a fulcrum on which the heavens lean, balancing the setting sun and rising moon.

For Plato, the quickening of the heart that occurred when a person saw his or her loved one was just a step in the ascent to true love, which could happen only in the mind, after the lover comprehended what was eternally true and beautiful in the beloved. Platonic love existed beyond all the blood and heat contained in the heart. This split between passion and piety, between lust and love, would resonate throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and it continues up to the present day.

For Loveliness, Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most

Moss covered grotto

Caroline, furthermore, was wan, pale, and dreamily beautiful, an exquisite creature who wept bitterly when she was told that families "of wretched poor" lived south of Canal Street, which was why her coachman would not drive her there.

because although she is very pretty, she is also very dead, and dead trumps pretty much everything.

A carnal worshipper is taken with the beauty and magnificence of the temple; a spiritual worshipper desires to see the glory of God in the sanctuary (Psalm lxiii. 2), he pants after God: as he came to worship, to find God, he boils up in desires for God, and is loth to go from it without God, "the living God" (Psalm xlii. 2).

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Stuart M. Sperry. Keats the Poet. Princeton University Press; Princeton, NJ, 1993

Gerald B. Kauvar. The Other Poetry of Keats. Associated University Press: Cranbury, New Jersey, 1969

Andrew Motion. Keats. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2001

If you see those pretty things that nature likes to show Remember all those seals that sing And leave them there to grow.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle.

If he could not find beauty, nothing else would be worth finding.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

the derivative of experience." When toward the end of the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health Eddy writes, "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God," one senses that her words were rooted in her life.

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager," he said

Flies struggled from her mouth, only to ignite into brilliant golden sparks. Hundreds of them, thousands of them burst from her into their individual pinprick of fire which then was gone for ever, like the distant implosion of a dying star...

Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd. I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. —WALT WHITMAN