1,046 Quotes Regarding Beauty


The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. Thompson

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire

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

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe

I am a thing of beauty.
Frank Sinatra

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore