Quotes About Beauty

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

Beauty is our business.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

I am a parasite off beauty.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

It's all about embracing your inner beauty and just living for yourself.