925 private quotes tagged beauty

“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.” — Albrecht Durer

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“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.” — Michelangelo

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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.” — John Wooden

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“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.” — Edmund Burke

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“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.” — Victor Hugo

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“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” — Khalil Gibran

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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” — Samuel Johnson

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“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

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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” — Albert Einstein

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“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.” — Plautus

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“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” — Aldous Huxley

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“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.” — H. G. Wells

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“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.” — André Gide

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“Beauty and folly are old companions.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.” — Michelangelo

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