7,206 Quotes About Beauty

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene,The work of Fancy, or some happy toneOf meditation, slipping in betweenThe beauty coming and the beauty gone.

Plain living and high thinking are no more:The homely beauty of the good old causeIs gone.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

The beauty of this mission is that we don't know what to expect. But whatever happens, we'll learn something.