Alberti Leon Battista 1404-1472
Beauty-the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the
harmony of the whole.
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.
„Thyrsis"
And that sweet City with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening.
Essays „Of Beauty"
That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Exuberance is beauty.
The Growth of Love
Beauty sat with me all the summer day,
Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye;
Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by,
Love in her train stood ready for his prey.
The Good Earth
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundredth with a beauty.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Of its own beauty is the mind diseased.
„She Walks in Beauty"
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Female beauty is an important minor sacrament ...I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.
„The Anagram"
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
„The Autumnal"
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Beauty will save the world.
The Brothers Karamazov
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts;which exactly answers its ends.
As a beauty I am not a star,
There are others more handsome by far,
But my face-I don't mind it
For I am behind it.
It's the people in front get the jar.
The Beaux' Stratagem
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.
The Dying Patriot
Noon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town,
Beauty she was statue cold-there's blood upon her gown.
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing,but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
The Pirates of Penzance
The question is, had he not been
A thing of beauty,
Would she be swayed by quite as keen
A sense of duty?
„Beauty and Duty"
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.
Molly Bawn
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
„Ninth Philosopher's Song"
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die.
Endymion
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothiningness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
„Ode on a Grecian Urn"
„Beauty is truth, truth beauty", -that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Keats John 1795-1821
„Ode on Melancholy"
She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,
Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips.
Traffics and Discoveries „Mrs Bathurst"
‚Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
