Beautiful quotes
Anouilh Jean 1910-1987
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de 1732-1799
Nature says to a woman: „Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected, that is essential."
Chekhov Anton 1860-1904
Uncle Vanya
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, "You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair."
Cocteau Jean 1889-1963
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Dietrich Marlene 1901-1991
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman-any woman-beautiful
legs.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Fitzgerald F. Scott 1896-1940
The beautiful and damned.
Fosdick Harry Emerson 1878-1969
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible,
say some reasonable thing.
Gracian Baltasar 1601-1658
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Greene Graham 1904-1991
The Heart of the Matter
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive.
Hammerstein I I Oscar 1895-1960
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Haskins Henry S.
If a man hears much that a woman says,she is not beautiful.
Hemans Felicia 1793-1835
„The Homes of England"
The stately homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Henry O.1862-1910
Gentle Grafter „Octopus Marooned"
It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
Holmes Oliver Wendell 1809-1894
When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
Landon Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.) 1802-1838
Apple Blossoms
As beautiful as woman's blush,
As evanescent too.
Laver James 1899-1975
Taste and Fashion
The same costume will be :
Indecent ... 10 years before ist time
Shameless ...5 years before its time
Outré (daring) 1 year before its time
Dowdy ... 1 years after its time
Hideous ...10 years after its time
Ridiculous ...20 years after its time
Amusing ...30 years after its time
Quaint ... 50 years after its time
Charming ... 70 years after its time
Romantic ... 100 years after its time
Beatiful ... 150 years after its time
Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930
Women in Love
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
Mailer Norman 1923-
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant.
All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Morris William 1834-1896
Hopes and Fears for Art
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Mottoes and Slogans
(slogan, American civil rights campaigners)
Black is beautiful.
Needham Richard J.
People are like birds-from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.
O'hara Frank 1926-1966
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Paul Elliot 1891-1958
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
Pericles c. 495-429 BC
(funeral oration)
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Publilius Syrus 1st century BC
Sententiae
A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
Ruskin John 1819-1900
Stones of Venice
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;peacocks and lilies for instance.
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
„Prometheus Unbound"
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Sontag Susan 1933-
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
„In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"
The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time.