Beauty Quotes - Page 39

• Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

  Bill Vaughan

  Virtue, Dies

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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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• I'd rather be hit by a gorgeous man than an ugly one.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Men, Ugly, Gorgeous

  "Sex and the Much Married Girl (A Salute to Zsa Zsa Gabor)". Interview with Staar, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

  Francis Quarles

  Heart, Soul, Vices

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.57

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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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• 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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• 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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• one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Art, Voice, United States

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

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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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• the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

  Nancy Willard

  Stars, Bird, Skins

  Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Flower, Autumn

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• Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Unique, Things In Life

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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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• Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Nature, Pain, Intelligence

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• The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Life, Soul, Spheres

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Wall, Moving, Sunset

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1952). “Catherine Carter: A Novel”, London Macmillan 1952.

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• Beauty is a perilous gift.

  Ellis Peters

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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,--the fading rainbow's pride.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Pride, Rainbow, Fading

  Fitz-Greene HALLECK (1847). “The Poetical Works of F. H. Now First Collected”, p.91

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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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