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E. M. Forster on beauty
Author: E. M. Forster“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna.” -E. M. Forster
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Emile Zola on beauty
Author: Emile Zola“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.” -Emile Zola
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Amy Grant on beauty
Author: Amy Grant“There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.” -Amy Grant
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W. Somerset Maugham on beauty
Author: W. Somerset Maugham“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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Franz Kafka on beauty
Author: Franz Kafka“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” -Franz Kafka
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John Keats on beauty
Author: John Keats“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.” -John Keats
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John Donne on beauty
Author: John Donne“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” -John Donne
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Karl Lagerfeld on beauty
Author: Karl Lagerfeld“Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.” -Karl Lagerfeld
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Rudyard Kipling on beauty
Author: Rudyard Kipling“San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” -Rudyard Kipling
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Bryant H. McGill on beauty
Author: Bryant H. McGill“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.” -Bryant H. McGill
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Mark Hyman on beauty
Author: Mark Hyman“Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.” -Mark Hyman
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Rose Kennedy on beauty
Author: Rose Kennedy“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.” -Rose Kennedy
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Mary Wollstonecraft on beauty
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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James Russell Lowell on beauty
Author: James Russell Lowell“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.” -James Russell Lowell
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Samuel Johnson on beauty
Author: Samuel Johnson“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” -Samuel Johnson
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Frank Lloyd Wright on beauty
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright“The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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Maria Montessori on beauty
Author: Maria Montessori“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” -Maria Montessori
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Richard P. Feynman on beauty
Author: Richard P. Feynman“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” -Richard P. Feynman
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Jane Austen on beauty
Author: Jane Austen“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.” -Jane Austen
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Simone Weil on beauty
Author: Simone Weil“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.” -Simone Weil
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Michelangelo on beauty
Author: Michelangelo“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.” -Michelangelo
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Samuel Butler on beauty
Author: Samuel Butler“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.” -Samuel Butler
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Langston Hughes on beauty
Author: Langston Hughes“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” -Langston Hughes
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Ruby Dee on beauty
Author: Ruby Dee“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” -Ruby Dee