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Quotes About Beauty

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.
~ Hayley Williams
Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
~ Plato, Phaedrus
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
~ Coco Chanel
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
~ Helen Keller
Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.
~ Bertrand Russell
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.
~ Voltaire
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
~ Abraham Maslow
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
~ Oscar Wilde
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.
~ Michelle Obama
There is great beauty in the world but you will not trip over it with every step. When a man dulls himself to beauty, the world begins to die.
~ R.A.Delmonico
If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, then surely I would have to had been blind to not see it in her.
~ Ross Turner, Jenson
Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.
~ Robert Tew