“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
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“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
“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.”
“Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
“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.”
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!”
“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”
“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”
“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.”
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”