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Quotes About Beauty

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability!-Life in the making?
~ David Grayson
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!
~ Robert Herrick
Colors speak all languages.
~ Joseph Addison
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made another.
~ Robert Burns
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
~ Normal Mailer
The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.
~ Ovid
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
~ Andrei Voznesensky
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
~ Michelangelo
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~ Corita Kent
Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
~ Francis Bailey
Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One glance of Thine creates a day.
~ Isaac Watts
Of two evils, choose the prettier.
~ Carolyn Wells
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth.
~ Bible
Gardening is an exercise in optimism.
~ Maria Schinz
The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
~ Stevie Smith
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
~ Hugh Casson
The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
~ Bertrand Russell
To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.
~ Joan Baez
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
~ Christian Dior
Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.
~ Louisa Thomas
What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.
~ Richard Bach
Tears mess up your makeup.
~ Julia Child