Quotes About Beauty

Her face was very beautiful, he thought. He hadn't been sure before, but he was now. The mind that lived behind it made it beautiful, the same way that the flame inside a lantern makes the lantern beautiful.

It was bigger than he remembered, and much uglier. Strange, how when he lived there he had believed everything the Goggle-screens told him about the city's elegant lines, its perfect beauty. Now he saw that it was ugly; no better than any other town, just bigger; a stormfront of smoke and belching chimneys, a wave of darkness rolling towards the mountains with the white villas of High London surfing on its crest like some delicate ship. It didn't look like home.

They were beautiful all right, but it was a huge, inhuman beauty...

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!How silently, and with how wan a face!

Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.

No, no, let us think with consideration, and consider with acknowledging, and acknowledge with admiration, and admire with love, and love with joy in the midst of all woes ; let us in such sort think, I say, that our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

Her hair, just long enough now to tie back in a knot, had a coppery sheen, a hint of fire in the darkness.

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet...Every step makes a flower bloom.

Old and ruined, all rotted and broken upThese plum trees function gorgeouslyA few days every yearIn a way nobody else does.

their great hope was to restore Western culture to its religious roots, to unleash the powers of the imagination, to reenchant the world through Christian faith and pagan beauty.

Have you noticed how the most beautiful landscapes lose their brilliance as soon as our thoughts prevent us from seeing them properly?

One of my lifelong regrets is that I was not beautiful, and what is more, that I turned for love to those who could not but reject me.

Je me souviens d'instants d'une grâce indépassable dans une solitude insondable.

Au fond, je n'écris que pour retrouver la belle sensation du soleil luisant entre les omoplates d'un garçon étendu, ventre et visage contre le sable, dans août qui s'en va.

Dis Papa, c'est quoi le ciel? Un espace sans ligne ni partage Une grande rêverie une nuite pleine de jour Qui n'a ni fin ni soif

when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

La vie, la vie la vie n'est pas comme les livres, elle peut être bien belle, même et parfois elle n'est pas toute rose, mais changer de couleur ne la rend pas meilleure. Aime-toi comme tu es, aime les autres comme ils sont. En vérité, mon si joli garçon, ce pourrait être cela la leçon.

Sie war nicht schön, sie war schlimmer als das. (Doktor Véron über Mata Hari)

Je me suis installé dans le jardin. Comme le ciel n'est pas tout à fait noir, je vois des oiseaux traverser l'étendue grise-dessus des arbres, en un long vol, puissant et formidable, et il me semble les sentir glisser à la surface de mes yeux.

còn cái ??p, ch? không ngh? ng??i ta ph?i g?ng s?c hi?u nó.

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence...

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Oh, todos somos complicados. Cada príncipe es diez por ciento nerd. Nadie está libre de nerd. No funciona de esa manera. Pero todos somos hermosos, cada uno de nosotros