But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
~By Pat Metheny ~
A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
~By Clarence Stein ~
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
~By Murray Kempton ~
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
~By Faith Hill ~
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
~By Claude Debussy ~
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
~By Harrison Ford ~
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
To love beauty is to see light.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
~By Alicia Machado ~
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
~By Tadao Ando ~
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
~By John Keats ~
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
~By William Shenstone ~
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
~By Marianne Moore ~
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
~By Helena Christensen ~
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
~By Jude Law ~
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
~By Euripides ~
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
~By Hu Shih ~
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
~By Susan Sontag ~
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
~By Meryl Streep ~
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
~By Paul Klee ~
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
~By Gabrielle Union ~
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
~By Henry Rollins ~
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
~By John Erskine ~
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
~By John Milton ~
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~By Walter Hagen ~
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
~By John Derek ~
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
~By Camille Paglia ~
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
~By George H. Mead ~
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
~By Anne Boyd ~
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
~By Jeb Bush ~
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
~By Phil Ochs ~
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
~By Fanny Brice ~
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
~By William C. Bryant ~
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
~By George Byron ~
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
~By Joan Blondell ~
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
~By Simone Weil ~
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
~By Walter Pater ~
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~By Dodie Smith ~
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
~By Albert Einstein ~
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
~By Oliver Stone ~
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
~By Jean Rostand ~
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
~By Hazrat Inayat Khan ~
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
~By Van Morrison ~
You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
~By Giuseppe Garibaldi ~
The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
~By Lee Scott ~
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
~By Florence King ~
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
~By Eva Herzigova ~
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
~By Eugene Ionesco ~
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
~By Socrates ~
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
~By Charlie Haden ~
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
~By Alexander Alekhine ~
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
~By Homer ~
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
~By Peggy Fleming ~
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
~By Tyra Banks ~
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
~By Miriam Beard ~
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
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