Beauty Quotes - Page 74

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.

A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!