Quotes about Beauty
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
- George Washington
The eye is the jewel of the body.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
- Pablo Picasso
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.
- Anonymous
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
- Walt Whitman
There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
- Thomas Merton
All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
- John Donne
When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.
- Samuel Johnson
If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.
- JM Coetzee
Women's beauty doesn't belong to the women herself. She's the part of treasure, which she brings into the world. It's her duty to share it.
- JM Coetzee
we also first beheld Unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc, and grieved To have a soulless image on the eye That had usurped upon a living thought That never more could be.
- JM Coetzee