Quotes About Beauty

At times I beheld visions of dazzling beauty—visions so rapturous, so unearthly, that no artist will ever paint them.

This is simply another failure of imagination: nature is not only to be found "out there"; it is also "in here," in the apple and the potato, in the garden and the kitchen, even in the brain of a man beholding the beauty of a tulip or inhaling the smoke from a burning cannabis flower.

There is nothing more satisfying and touching than seeing a woman radiating, blossoming in love.

In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers.

Instead he created an enormous body of prose that, at its best, sings.

But it's because our time is limited that life is so precious, so beautiful. And what matters is what we do in the time we've got.

God must have leaned down out of heaven and kissed her on the forehead at birth.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.

I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire.

In marriage, alliances and money rightly weigh at least as much as attractiveness and beauty.

el Apenino muestra sus cabezas hostiles e inaccesibles, desde donde se ven rodar muchos torrentes que, tras perder su primera furia, se dirigen hacia estos valles y llegan transformados en arroyos muy plácidos y dulces.

Mi estatura está algo por bajo de la media: este defecto no es solamente feo, sino incómodo, principalmente para los que tienen mando o ejercen cargos, pues la autoridad que procura la presencia hermosa y la corporal majestad les faltan.

Il est peu d'hommes, qui aiment la poésie, qui ne se gratifieraient plus d'être le père de l'Éneide que du plus beau garçon de Rome, et qui ne souffriraient pas plus aisément la perte de celui-ci que de l'Éneide.

He ought to have conceded that she was a flower not destined to open, a hothouse creation, no less beautiful, no less woth having, He should have admired her, praised her and, at the close of day, let her be.

Her invisible remains would combine, over time, with all the wonders under the sun. When it snowed she would be part of it, falling softly to earth, rising up again with the snow's evaporation, When it rained, she would be there in the spectral arch that spanned from firth to ground. She would help to wreathe the fields in mists, and yet would always be transparent to the stars. She would live forever.

Saxansaxo', for example, meant the smell and the coolness carried on the wind from a place where it's raining to a place where it isn't. how could one word mean something so marvellous?

Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?

The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.

What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?

No desea que los hombres la consideren hermosa. Tal cosa sólo conduce a la infelicidad. Tampoco espera la admiración de otras mujeres; de ellas sólo espera una indiferencia cortés y un cotilleo rencoroso a sus espaldas.

Una vez fuera del coche, se quedó dudando antes de cerrar la puerta, mientras intentaba encontrar unas palabras apropiadas que decirle. -Y usted es...-Respiró hondo, cogiendo aire-.Es... preciosa - dijo por fin con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja. Isserley le devolvió la sonrisa y, de pronto, se sintió totalmente agotada. -Hasta pronto-le dijo.

self-attachment is the first sign of madness, but it is because man is attached to himself that he accepts error as truth, lies as reality, violence and ugliness as beauty and justice.