Quotes About Beauty

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

The sun shines today also.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.