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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
- Shaftesbury, Lord

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
- Britten, Benjamin

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
- Sontag, Susan

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.
- Klee, Paul

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
- Arnim, Mary

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- Donne, John

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
- Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
- Pindar

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
- Plotinus

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
- Proverb, Chinese

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Gibran, Kahlil

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
- Sappho

The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.
- Unknown, Source

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
- Sappho

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- Keats, John

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
- L'Enclos, Ninon De

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
- Russell, Bertrand

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!
- Norton, Caroline Sheridan

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- Sontag, Susan

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
- Lao-Tzu

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
- Huxley, Aldous

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful ? One must speak of problems in painting !
- Picasso, Pablo

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Kafka, Franz

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
- Wilde, Oscar

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn ?
- Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.
- Baudelaire, Charles

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
- Meir, Golda

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
- Paglia, Camille

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
- Bachelard, Gaston

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
- Wey, Hermann

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
- Wilde, Oscar

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably
- Keats, John

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
- Blake, William

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
- Allen, James

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Fuller, R. Buckminster

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
- Joubert, Joseph

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
- Greville, Lord

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.
- Zeldin, Theodore

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
- Auden, W. H.

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.
- Forster, Edward M.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- Whitman, Walt

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
- Buddha

In art economy is always beauty.
- James, Henry

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe