Beauty Quotes
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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– Euripides
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Another part of beauty is terror. The world isn't pretty, it's beautiful. Awe is a mixture of terror and beauty. You say that the opposite of beauty is ugliness. Right. I would say that all injustice is ugly, sin is ugly, tearing down the rainforest is ugly. To me, beauty is not about perfection, there's beauty in imperfection.
– Matthew Fox
Because when you put on the earphones and go to work, I guess your commitment to art is greater than your lack of commitment to each other. So you always get responsible and serious toward doing your best work from the heart with all the beauty you have within you when it's tape time.
– Art Garfunkel
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
– Amy Grant
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– Walter Hagen
If the highest beauty requires both prettiness and harshness, perfection and discord, this place is sublimely beautiful.
– John Hart
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What is beauty, or our sense of beauty, for? Where did it come from? Is it some accidental off-flowering from sex? Was the lion I saw swimming alone up and down an inlet, parting its sleek dark head to bark and bark and bark, feeling something we might recognize as an aesthetic zest?
– John Hart
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It was an April day and I went out into the garden and it had been raining during the night. I had the feeling that I saw the earth and the beauty of nature as it had been when it was created, at the first day of creation. It was a beautiful experience! I was reborn, seeing nature in quite a new light.
– Albert Hofmann
– Victor Hugo
– David Hume
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If Amsterdam or Leningrad vie for the title of Venice of the North, then Venice - what compliment is high enough? Venice, with all her civilisation and ancient beauty, Venice with her addiction to curious aquatic means of transport, yes, my friends, Venice is the Henley of the South.
– Boris Johnson
My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight, Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea? Ah, how the City of our God is fair! If, without sea, and starless though it be, For joy of the majestic beauty there, Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.
– Lionel Johnson
– Louis Kahn
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
– John F. Kennedy
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
– Rose Kennedy
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
– Jean Kerr
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
– Karl Kraus
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– Murray Kempton
I feel the garment of Christ being pulled over our shoulders. I am new... I finally sleep, wrapped in the beauty of the word, Savior.
– Laurel Lee
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– Sam Llewelyn
– Christopher Marlowe
– George Moore
Can it be a coincidence that, say, in the Sun newspaper, the ideal of female beauty would seem to be the body - the overdeveloped body - of a nubile woman and, what, the face of a twelve-year-old? Paedophilia is completely ingrained within our culture.
– Alan Moore
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
– William Morris
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
– John Muir
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I don't think that anybody like me can really understand, even have an inkling, of what's going on in the criminal justice system, the people caught up in it, without seeing it in person. I spoke of the magistrates' courts in South Africa, but I've been down in the basement of 100 Centre Street and saw black people put in cages like animals in the United States, in the world's capital of culture, show biz and beauty, like New York City.
– Burke Marshall
– Samurai Maxim
– Georgia O'Keeffe
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
– Ovid
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– Laurence J. Peter
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
– Ivan Panin
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– Arthur Rimbaud
– John Ruskin
– George William Russell
– Sally Rand
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