Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

George Santayana

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

George Santayana

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

George Santayana

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

George Santayana

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

George Santayana

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

George Santayana

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

George Santayana

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

George Santayana

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

George Santayana

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Meredith

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

George Meredith

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

G. H. Hardy

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty will save the world

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Franz Grillparzer

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

Franz Grillparzer

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

George Eliot

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

George Eliot

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

George Eliot

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

George Eliot

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Gabourey Sidibe

One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.

George Herbert

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

George Herbert

Beauty draws more than oxen.

Christina Rossetti

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.