Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

Scarlett Johansson

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

Lewis Mumford

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Lawrence Halprin

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

Lawrence Durrell

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

Lady Randolph Churchill

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Laetitia Casta

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Marcus Aurelius

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

Marcus Aurelius

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

Marcus Aurelius

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

Marcus Aurelius

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Samuel Johnson

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Rufus Wainwright

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

Rodney Dangerfield

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Robertson Davies

Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

Robertson Davies

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Fitzgerald

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Vita Sackville-West

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

Vita Sackville-West

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Walt Whitman

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

Walt Whitman

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Walt Whitman

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Tom Stoppard

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Sallust

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

Saadi

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.