Quotes with beauty

  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
  • Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
  • It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
  • A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
  • Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
  • When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
  • The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
  • Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
  • Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
  • When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Reade Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
    Charles Reade
    British writer (1814 - 1884)
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  • William Congreve A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Frank Zappa Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
    Endymion (1818) I, 1
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Emily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Stendhal Beauty is the promise of happiness.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Plato Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Betty Field I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
    Betty Field
     
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Camille Paglia The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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