beauty quotes

• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (George Sand) [beauty/eyes/moment/soul & body]
• Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. (William Maugham) [beauty]
• And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. (John Galsworthy) [beauty/people]
• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. (William Blake) [art/beauty]
• Exuberance is beauty. (William Blake) [beauty]
• Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph. (Frank Zappa) [moment/beauty]
• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. (George Santayana) [more/absolute/beauty]
• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. (Jack London) [beauty]
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ( Socrates) [beauty/tyranny]
• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. (Joseph Addison) [more/beauty]
• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. (Anouk Aimee) [beauty]
• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ( Aristotle) [beauty/letter]
• Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. ( Aristotle) [beauty/time/willpower/willpower]
• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. ( Aristotle) [beauty/heavy/high]
• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. (Francis Bacon) [beauty]
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Francis Bacon) [beauty]
• Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. (James Baldwin) [human/willpower/beauty/willpower]
• The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed. (Roger Bannister) [source/power/beauty/source]
• Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. (Georges Bataille) [beauty/order/joy]
• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. (Walter Benjamin) [happiness/share/beauty/thing]
• I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days] (Halle Berry) [time/beauty]
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. (Jacqueline Bisset) [character/beauty/youth]
• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. (William Blake) [art/beauty]
• Exuberance is beauty. (William Blake) [beauty]
• Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. (Andre Breton) [beauty/willpower/willpower]
• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. (Benjamin Britten) [music/beauty/pain/beauty]
• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. (Albert Camus) [beauty/time]
• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. (Albert Camus) [beauty/sky/more/absurd]
• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. (Thomas Carlyle) [virtue/beauty]
• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ( Confucius) [beauty]
• A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. (William Congreve) [more/beauty]

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