Quotes About Beauty

Where are you now? How are the nymphs? I suppose they have led you a fine dance.

De nada tengo certeza sino de la santidad de los afectos del corazón y de la verdad de la imaginación.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills.

Me pareció que era una bonita plegaria, así que miré a través de la ventana y empecé a rezar, pero mi mirada tropezó con la Biblia de neón, allá abajo, y no pude continuar. Entonces vi que las estrellas del cielo resplandecían con la hermosa plegaria y empecé de nuevo, recé sin pensar siquiera y ofrecí la oración a las estrellas y al cielo nocturno.

Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice. And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

there was a breath of widening life in the morning air--something hard to describe--

it also meant mornings of glory such as this one, in which the snow, white almost to blueness, lay like a soft comforter over the hills, and birches and pines indestructibly held their ground, rigid lines against the snow and sky, very thin and very strong like Vermonters.

It is the beauty of small areas of order — a large heard, a group of trees, three similar dormitories, a circle of old houses — living together in contentious harmony

Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Sunrise is a beautiful spectacle but without a doubt the greater part of the audience is still asleep.

Women look their oldest at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

The Sun is white (with a hint of turquoise), not yellow.

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

Henry James described the Hopkins as a place where, despite "the immensities of pain" one thought of "fine poetry . . . and the high beauty of applied science. . . . Grim human alignments became, in their cool vistas, delicate symphonies in white. . . . Doctors ruled, for me, so gently, the whole still concert.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.