Quotes About Beauty

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul.

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.