Quotes about Beauty

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have here below.

The ill are damped with pain and anguish at the sight of all that is laudable, lovely, or happy.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.