Beauty Quotes - Page 53
'Pater Noster'
Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems on Slavery, Early Poems, additional Poems, and Ballads”, p.12
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.108
Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.275
The Altar of the Dead preface (1909)
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
A Guide to Men "Bachelors" (1922)
George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.141
Friedrich Schiller, Goethe Society of India (2007). “Schiller and Aesthetic Education Today”
Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Metropolitan Life "Manners" (1978)
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.243, e-artnow
"Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)
Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”