Quotes About Beauty

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains, as no artist could ever do!

October is Nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colors.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Marrying for buty iz a poor spekulashun, for enny man who sees yure wife, has got just about az mutch stock in her as yu have.

my feelings for the countryside…the beauty and the wildness, the enchantment of so much colour and life and warmth of the sun. Most people are restless in the country, they feel a vacancy, and want to get back to the shops and pavements and traffic; what they call life. Sometimes this war seems to have come directly out of that restlessness.

There is a paradise, and all true artists work to the glory of its existence, even if they do not always believe with conventional or organised faith.

The grace of God is poetry...

waves are the tears of Christ breaking on the stones of the world.

A beautiful woman is worth her weight always in gold; but if she loves in addition, she has simply no price.

omul este ca un fluture: se înc?lzeÈ™te la soarele favorurilor, iar la prima adiere mai rece piere... chiar dac? n-ar vrea!

Oj, pójdziewa w ?yto, BoÅ› dobra, kobieto!

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.