Beauty Quotes - Page 60

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

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.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

When you spend your days doing what fulfills you, you are attractive.

Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.