Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Teasdale

Spend all you have for loveliness.

Sara Teasdale

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Samuel Johnson

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Wallace Stevens

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Voltaire

To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back,

Voltaire

Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.

William Ralph Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

William Butler Yeats

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

William Butler Yeats

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

William Butler Yeats

Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

William Butler Yeats

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

William Butler Yeats

If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.

William Butler Yeats

And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.

William Butler Yeats

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone....

William Butler Yeats

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze....

William Butler Yeats

All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

William Butler Yeats

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r

William Butler Yeats

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

William Butler Yeats

But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

William Butler Yeats

And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew....

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Walter Savage Landor

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

Walter Savage Landor

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

William Kent

All gardening is landscape painting.

Yogi Berra

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

Wes Bentley

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I'd rather be hit by a gorgeous man than an ugly one.

Zora Neale Hurston

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

Zora Neale Hurston

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Zhuangzi

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.