Quotes About Beauty

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

A beautiful bridge is a poem.

Goodness knows what hallucinations of danger and siege people are subject to, if they live anywhere too beautiful and too sequestered.

The gracious thing to do was to accept the beauty of the opportunity if it was given

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

Down through the ages and in the whole world, Watt and Newton cannot have been the only ones to notice the steam from a boiling kettle or observe an apple fall. Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

He wanted to teach the children that all bodies are beautiful.

Punya mata, tapi tidak melihat keindahan; punya telinga, tapi tidak mendengar musik; punya pikiran, tapi tidak memahami kebenaran; punya hati tapi hati itu tak pernah tergerak dan karena itu tidak pernah terbakar. Itulah hal-hal yang harus ditakuti, kata Kepala Sekolah.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage...

If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud in which thou about to wrap thyself. I am Beauty, I am Youth, I am Life. Come to me! Together we shall be Love.

Angels' kisses must be like this; true paradise is not in heaven but on the lips of one's beloved.

J'aime la folle cruauté des chimères qu'on apprivoise.

Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

Tear up that funeral shroud—you are going to smother yourself in it. I am beauty, I am youth, I am life—come to me, and together we will be Love itself....Our life together will flow by like a dream, and it will be as one perpetual kiss.

If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud in which thou art about to wrap thyself. I am Beauty, I am Youth, I am Life. Come to me! Together we shall be Love. Can Jehovah offer thee aught in exchange? Our lives will flow on like a dream, in one eternal kiss.

And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.

Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.

Her eyes were a poem; their every glance was a song.

Stvarno lepo je samo ako ne može ni?emu da služi. Sve što je korisno, ružno je, jer predstavlja potrebu, a kod ?oveka je ona gnusna i odvratna kao i njegova jadna i odvratna priroda. Najkorisnije u svakoj ku?i je klozet.