BEAUTY QUOTES IX

quotations about beauty

When I entreated Life to make me wise,
It drew aside Love's broidered veil of lies;
And perilous Beauty, undivined before,
Beckoned me from the mazes of his eyes.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love


The Nature of Beauty is in the relation of means to an end; the means, the possibilities of stimulation in the motor, visual, auditory, and purely ideal fields; the end, a moment of perfection, of self-complete unity of experience, of favourable stimulation with repose. Beauty is not perfection; but the beauty of an object lies in its permanent possibility of creating the perfect moment. The experience of this moment, the union of stimulation and repose, constitutes the unique aesthetic emotion.

ETHEL PUFFER HOWES

The Psychology of Beauty


Love is the divine Fire, and Beauty its glowing reflection in the skies of Time.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


Beauty
Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought
Is therapeutic. If, after several
Applications, you do not find
Relief, consult your family physician.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

"Island of Summer"


Beauty can pierce one like pain.

THOMAS MANN

Buddenbrooks


Beauty in woman is that potent alchemy which transforms men into asses.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


This is the essence of beauty--the possession of a quality which excites the human organism to functioning harmonious with its own nature.

ETHEL PUFFER HOWES

The Psychology of Beauty


Much that is beautiful must be discarded
So that we may resemble a taller
Impression of ourselves.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Illustration"


The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Jack and Jill: A Village Story


Beauty is the gift from God.

ARISTOTLE


The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks.

CRAIG FERGUSON

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Jun. 1, 2012


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.

EUDORA WELTY

On Writing


Beauty is objectified pleasure.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

The Sense of Beauty


To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

JANE AUSTEN

Northanger Abbey


We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

MAYA ANGELOU

attributed, The Butterfly's Daughter


But beauty of all kinds gives us a peculiar delight and satisfaction; as deformity produces pain, upon whatever subject it may be placed, and whether surveyed in an animate or inanimate object. If the beauty or deformity, therefore, be placed upon our own bodies, this pleasure or uneasiness must be converted into pride or humility, as having in this case all the circumstances requisite to produce a perfect transition of impressions and ideas. These opposite sensations are related to the opposite passions. The beauty or deformity is closely related to self, the object of both these passions. No wonder, then our own beauty becomes an object of pride, and deformity of humility.

DAVID HUME

A Treatise of Human Nature


In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

What Will He Do With It?


Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Beauty", The Essays or Counsels


The yoke of beauty is easy to bear
Since I need not lay it down.

KARLE WILSON BAKER

"The Marching Mountains", Burning Bush


Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.

L. FRANK BAUM

The Tin Woodman of Oz