Quotes about Beauty

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Only cactuses had perennial appeal. And cactuses were of no interest to her.

Don't forget that not only was Socrates ugly but also that many famous women lovers did not distinguish themselves at all by their physical perfection. Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us

If Olga had been a little more foolish, she would have found herself quite pretty. But since she was an intelligent girl, she considered herself much uglier than she really was, for she was actually neither ugly nor pretty

Frequent mists swirling across the countryside drifted between me and the populated land, so that the world was as it was on the fifth day of creation, when God was still undecided whether he should hand it over to Man.

But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched. Everything going on around her at that moment would be haloed by the music and take on its beauty.

There is in these words the beautiful maneuverability of the abstract rushing in to replace the intractability of the concrete.

None but the brave and beautiful can love.

Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

I want to have thoughts of abundance. I want to have thoughts of love, of kindness, of beauty.