Will To Beauty Quotes

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

It's lovely. I hate it.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

until only infinity remained of beauty

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.