Will To Beauty Quotes

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

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.

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

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

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.

The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

I think that I get to represent different types of beauty that [are] not just my own.

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?

O my love, my wife!Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breathHath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.