Beauty Quotes - Page 38

• Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.

  Marianne Moore

  Stars, Tears, Poison

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.76, Macmillan

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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Air, Looks, May

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• Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Power, Government, Insanity

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• In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

  Honore de Balzac

  World, Figures, Monstrosity

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• Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Giving, Joy, Fades

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• loveliness is infernally sad.

  Virginia Woolf

  Loveliness

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.748, Delphi Classics

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• A pleasing face is no small advantage.

  Ovid

  Faces, Advantage

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• I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
  [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
  Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

  Ovid

  Beautiful, Perfect, Suits

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• Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

  Bill Vaughan

  Virtue, Dies

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• There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Weight, Kind, Terrible

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• Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

  Bill Vaughan

  Grace, Bait, May

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• When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

  Shakti Gawain

  Reflection, Reflection Of Yourself

  Shakti Gawain, Laurel King (1998). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, p.73, New World Library

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• The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Noble, Grotesque

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.160

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• It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

  Simone Weil

  Essence, Vices, Looks

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.61, Routledge

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• perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Responsibility, Modern, Social

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Fats

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• He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

  Sappho

  Looks, Goodness, Look Up

  Sappho (1925). “The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography”

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• It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Should, Profession

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Overwhelmed, Distraction

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Beauty drawes more then oxen.

  George Herbert

  Oxen

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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• The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

  Thich Thien-An

  Simplicity, Tranquility, Harmony

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• Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

  Brad Warner

  Practice, Missing, Encounters

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library

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• Beauty is a perilous gift.

  Ellis Peters

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• beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

  Erica Jong

  Men, House, Lovely

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• It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

  Anna Pavlova

  Nerves, Useless, Body

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