Beauty Quotes - Page 21

• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beautiful, Beach, Ocean

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Pain, Believe, Towers

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• We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Nature, Learning, Health

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• Beauty and folly are old companions.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Companion, Folly

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful Women, Health Beauty, Knows

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• Beauty is a fragile gift.

  Ovid

  Fragile

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• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  Douglas Adams

  Beautiful, Religious, Atheist

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

  Rumi

  Brother, Pain, Learning

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• There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Courage, Soul

  "The Old Batchelor: A Comedy".

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• It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Skins, Rotten

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

  Edmund Burke

  Essentials, Fragility, Delicacy

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.121

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• To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

  Paul Klee

  Beautiful, Numbers, Mathematical

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.198, Univ of California Press

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• Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beautiful, Fashion, Sacrifice

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.164

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Angel, Heaven, Peter

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• Remember that true beauty comes from within - from within bottles, jars, compacts, and lipstick tubes

  Jeffree Star

  Funny, Bottles, Jars

  FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Jan 17, 2012

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• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  Thornton Wilder

  Evil, World, Bent

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• The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

  Thomas Gray

  Path, Wealth, Glory

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 29

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• Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Funny, Witty, Forever

  Judy Sheindlin (1999). “Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever: The Making of a Happy Woman”, Harper

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• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Sex, Intuition

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Curves, Sight

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• But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Mistake, Flower

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Philosophical, Healing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Art, Excellence, Doe

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Lying, Sky

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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