logo

Quotes About Beauty

All authentic academic research is based on the simultaneous pursuit of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good—if any is pursued separately, imbalance ensues.
~ Keith Critchlow
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.
~ Keith J. Devlin
You look beautiful," he said. "You're parentally obligated to say that." "True.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Rafe's right. You are pretty. I like your hair." She reached out and stroked a lock hanging over my shoulder. "I wish mine was straight. I used to straighten it, but it never really worked. I don't think I was doing it right. Rafe tried to help, but--" She giggled. "He's not a good hairdresser." I couldn't help smiling at that image.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Maya's point is that Hayley, Nicole, and Serena shared common characteristics, which probably means they're the same type, and it has something to do with singing and swimming." "And being pretty," Hayley said. "That's not a superpower," Sam muttered.
~ Kelley Armstrong
She shone like a bright strange star shining in those empty lifeless halls, I write.
~ Kelly Link
I helped Master Crawford, the watchmaker, now that his sight had gone and faded to a thin pinpoint of light. That were my favorite time. I loved the beauty of all them parts working perfectly together, a little world that could be put to rights with the click of gears, like time itself answered to your fingers. "There is a beauty to the way things work. Remove one part, add another, you've changed the mechanism
~ Kelly Link
small forest of mirrored candelabras
~ Kelly Link
So what am I now?" Lee says, teasing. Dodo sighs. Gives Lee a hard look. "A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.
~ Kelly Link
Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores.
~ Kelly Link
The Bungalow 4 counselor was a twenty-year-old college student named Eric who had terrible acne and wrote poems about the local girls who worked in the kitchen and how their breasts looked lonely but also beautiful, like melted ice cream.
~ Kelly Link
Just look! The day's almost as beautiful as you!
~ Ken Akamatsu
Immortals must always give humans one thing! Either fear and terror! Or beauty!!
~ Ken Akamatsu
She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around her face, and she had dark, dark eyes. Jack realized that this was what the chansons meant when they referred to a beautiful princess in a castle. No wonder the knights all wept when the princess died.
~ Ken Follett
In the dynamics of the main family of the story, a rising socialist in England's postwar government expects his grandparents to be pleased that the local aristocrat's garden is commandeered to allow the people to get coal underneath. Instead, the grandparents grieve because the garden represents something more than a resource to be divided. It is a symbol of community and beauty.
~ Ken Follett
Her breasts had changed, too. He remembered when they had stuck out from her chest as if they were weightless, the nipples pointing up. Then, when she was pregnant, they had become even bigger, and the nipples had grown larger. Now they were lower and softer, and they swung delightfully from side to side when she walked. He had loved them through all their changes. He wondered what they would be like when she was old.
~ Ken Follett
The extra line or two around her eyes only made them more fascinating; the touch of silver in her hair enhanced the blackness of the rest; and if she was a little heavier than she had been it made her body more voluptuous.
~ Ken Follett
He had a taste for wild, spreading, disorderly things: high mountains,aged oaks,and Aliena's hair.
~ Ken Follett
Io credo che un romanzo sia riuscito quando tocca le emozioni del lettore. Lo stesso può valere per tutte le creazioni artistiche. Di sicuro è così per le cattedrali. Quando le vediamo stagliarsi contro il cielo restiamo sbalorditi, quando le visitiamo restiamo affascinati dalla loro grazia. Quando ci sediamo in silenzio proviamo un gran senso di pace. E quando una cattedrale brucia, piangiamo.
~ Ken Follett
Looking in the full-length mirror, she thought, I've got everything I had twenty years ago—it's all just three inches lower.
~ Ken Follett
La cathédrale, quant à elle, ressemblait à un chêne au milieu d'un champ d'orties.
~ Ken Follett
The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, and most of the great Gothic churches that are still the most beautiful buildings in the cities of Europe, were erected in the Middle Ages, a time marked by violence, famine, and plague. The construction of a cathedral was a huge enterprise lasting decades.
~ Ken Follett
But Wulfric's engaged to that Annet—who is much prettier." "Good looks aren't everything in a romance." "For which I thank God every day." She
~ Ken Follett
Perhaps women covered their nakedness to make themselves more alluring, not less. Rosa Hellman
~ Ken Follett