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“Milan has some beautiful areas, it is beautiful in the fog, it is a bit like a woman wearing a veil.”
Ornella Vanoni (1934–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trieste is a beautiful, wonderful city; all seaside cities are beautiful, but Trieste is particularly so because it is right on the sea.”
Ornella Vanoni (1934–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genoa is beautiful, you realise it is beautiful when you are far away.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A truly beautiful person is one with a beautiful soul.”
Sayo Kitamura (1900–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I first started doing screen work I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession — all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from South West London.' But you have to really empower yourself.”
Vanessa Kirby (born 1988) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nicol, Patricia (14 January 2016). "Vanessa Kirby: meet south-west London's hottest export". Evening Standard.
“Yes, I think it can be art. But for my part, I just consider myself a creative person. I don't see myself as an artist. That said, yes, I like football to be beautiful. For the fans, for those watching on TV who want to have a good time. I think football is a magnificent sport, and therefore it should be visually beautiful too.”
Michael Olise (born 2001) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On football being art, June 2026
“Sometimes people think because you’re beautiful the photo is going to be beautiful, but that literally could not be more different from the truth.”
Precious Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hindi ko alam kung kailan…you know what I mean. Mahal ko ang buhay kaya ayokong…Life is beautiful!” (I don't know when… you know what I mean. I love life, so I don't want to...Life is beautiful!”)”
Anita Linda (1924–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anita Linda: Truly a legend. The Philippine Star. 12 June 2020
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
Tom Stoppard (misattributed) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the bea…
“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.”
Ninon de L'Enclos (attributed) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Lewis Copeland, Best Quotations for All Occasions (1965), p. 19
“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, or speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) said by 1843 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here a solemn fast we keep, While all beauty lies asleep Hush'd be all things—no noise here— But the toning of a tear: Or a sigh of such as bring Cowslips for her covering.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here she lies, in bed of spice, Fair as Eve in Paradise: For her beauty it was such Poets could not praise too much. Virgins, come, and in a ring Her supremest requiem sing; Then depart, but see ye tread Lightly, lightly, o'er the dead.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God has given us the necessary faculties to become like him. Love, beauty and all divine qualities exist within us. We should make use of our faculties to express these divine qualities in our lives.”
Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“England’s sun was slowly setting o’er the hill-tops far away, Filling all the land with beauty at the close of one sad day; And its last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair,— He with footsteps slow and weary; she with sunny, floating hair; He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful; she with lips so cold and white, Struggled to keep back the murmur, “Curfew must not ring to-night.”
Rose Hartwick Thorpe (1850–1939) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Curfew must not ring To-night (published 1870).
“For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.”
John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Upward my face I turn to you, I long for you, I yearn to you, The spectral vision trances me to utt'rance wild and weak; It is not that I mourn you, To mourn you were to scorn you, For you are one step nearer to the beauty singers seek. But I want, and cannot see you, I seek and cannot find you, And, see! I touch the book of songs you tenderly left behind you!”
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the stout foe will not resign, When I besiege a town, I lose but what was never mine; But he that is cast down From enjoy’d beauty, feels a woe Only deposèd kings can know.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could Preserve from death's hand this their heav'nly mould.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That heavenly music! what is it I hear? The notes of the harpers ring sweet in mine ear. And, see, soft unfolding those portals of gold, The King all arrayed in his beauty behold!”
William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796–1877) first seen 1826 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I would not live alway (published 1826), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.”
James Beattie (1735–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bright looks reply, approving so Beauty's elixir vitæ, praise.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beauty in her lover's eyes Was admiration of her own.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he ’s gone aloft.”
Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tom Bowling (c. 1788).
“No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.”
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) first seen 1791 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Botanic Garden (1791), Part ii, Canto iii, l. 459.
“Football … is a ballet of wondrous beauty choreographed by highly skilled performers, dramatising the conflict between good and evil that takes place in every heart. And, at the same time it reflects the impatient immediacy of modern society in that success breeds immortality, while the procurement of second place begets anonymity.”
Damien Richardson (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What magic shall solve us the secret Of beauty that’s born for an hour?”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.”
Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Twas Beauty that killed the beast!”
Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Carl Denham in King Kong (1933)
“Beauty vanishes like a vapor, Preach the men of musty morals.”
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evanescence (1900).
“What we find in life is based on where we put our attention. When we focus on the small worlds our thoughts create, we miss out on the beauty and possibilities we are meant to enjoy.”
Guy Finley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty sat bathing by a spring”
Anthony Munday (1560–1633) said by 1633 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.”
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a league of German girls. Quoted in "German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler" - Page 47 - by Uli Linke - Social Science - 1999
“’T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.”
Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692) said by 1692 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…the film [Elvis ’56] is moving to me because it shows his vital uniqueness walking—a new kind of old American, innocent, with old American experience, and that’s always been our formula, our innocence, plus a unique kind of experience that other people haven’t had in other lands—walking with all of that, plus physical beauty, into Rear Window—down-the-drain-land.”
George W. S. Trow (1943–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's funny, the power of beauty, to make us forget such injustice. É estranho o poder da beleza, que nos faz esquecer tanta injustiça.”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine.”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Tracy Metz, "'Form Follows Feminine': Niemeyer, 90, Is Still Going Strong," Architectural Record (December 1997), p. 35
“Yes, , there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.”
Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1674) first seen 1647 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Triumph of Assurance", Orthodox Paradoxes, Or, A Believer Clearing Truth by Seeming Contradictions (1647), p. 41. Compare: "Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep", Mathew…
“Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?” (30).”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties; and it is a pretty promoter of intelligence, since it multiplies the avenues for its reception; and it is a good basis for a generous habit of life; it even equips beauty, neither hardening its hand with toil, nor tempting the wrinkles to come early.”
Ik Marvel (1822–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's adorned Amply that in her husband’s eye looks lovely,— The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.”
John Tobin (1770–1804) said by 1804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Honeymoon (1805), Act iii. Sc. 4.
“It is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loveliness of Love, attributed to Anonymous in Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury (Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1861), no. 86, p. 88. Elsewhere attributed to George Darley. Attributed to Carew in S. Austi…
Also quoted by: Thomas Carew (misattributed)
“Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers, Lull'd by the faint breezes sighing through her hair; Sleeps she and hears not the melancholy numbers Breathed to my sad lute 'mid the lonely air.”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear.And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.”
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Already" in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 103