Beauty Quotes - Page 50

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?

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

I don't like plain nails. I get sad.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Beauty is only skin deep.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.