925 private quotes tagged beauty

“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.” — Anne Roiphe

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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.” — John Wooden

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“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.” — Plautus

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“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.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” — Khalil Gibran

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“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.” — Albert Einstein

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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” — Albert Camus

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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.” — Edmund Burke

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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.” — William Blake

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“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.” — H. G. Wells

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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” — Samuel Johnson

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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” — Francis Bacon

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“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.” — André Gide

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“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.” — Victor Hugo

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“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.” — Michelangelo

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“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.” — André Gide

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“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” — Francis Bacon

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