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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. (Turlington Christy)
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. (Turlington Christy)
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. (Turlington Christy)
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. (Turlington Christy)
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Turlington Christy)
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal. (Turlington Christy)
Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is not caused. It is. (Turlington Christy)
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? (Turlington Christy)
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty. (Turlington Christy)
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you. (Turlington Christy)
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. (Turlington Christy)
The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty rests on necessities. (Turlington Christy)
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. (Turlington Christy)
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna. (Turlington Christy)
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. (Turlington Christy)
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. (Turlington Christy)
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. (Turlington Christy)
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