Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Beauty Quotes II



Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum


Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora"


It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~Leo Tolstoy


In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
~Christopher Morley


What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
~Logan Pearsall Smith


Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
~Roseanne


I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
~Karl Lagerfeld

There is a road from the eye
to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton




Beauty and folly are generally companions.
~Baltasar Gracian


We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~Confucius


Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
~George Eliot Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~John Muir


Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
~George W. Russell


I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~Author Unknown

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
~Rabindrath Tagore

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