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“... truth was a mortal enemy of beauty.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frank Harris: "My Life & Loves" (1925) p. 243
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream of beauty, glides away.”
Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song xii" (c. 1750s), St. 3 (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797, p. 174)
“But the gray and the cold are haunted By a beauty akin to pain,— By the sense of a something wanted, That will never come again.”
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high; He plants a home to heaven anigh For song and mother-croon of bird In hushed and happy twilight heard— The treble of heaven's harmony— These things he plants who plants a tree.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Heart of the Tree. An Arbor-Day Song", stanza 1, in The Poems of H. C. Bunner, new edition (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899), p. 249.
“I breathed a song into the air; That little song of beauty rare Is flying still, for all I know, Around the world by Radio.”
Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He could see naught but vanity in beauty, And naught but weakness in a fond caress, And pitied men whose views of Christian duty Allowed indulgence in such foolishness.”
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.”
Fritz Todt (1891–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling" - by David E. Nye - Nature - 2000 - Page 227.
“The world is fill'd with folly and sin, And Love must cling where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Twas a hand White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland. The hand of a woman is often, in youth, Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless in truth; Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm, Or as sorrow has cross'd the life-line in its palm.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“See my baby doll She's my beauty queen She's my movie star Best I ever seen I ain't hooked it up yet But I'm tryin' hard as I can It's just a high maintenance woman Don't want no maintenance man.”
Toby Keith (1961–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty.”
Michael Hamburger (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit As unconcern'd as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain! When I the dawn used to admire, And praised the coming day, I little thought the rising fire Would take my rest away.”
Charles Sedley (1639–1701) said by 1701 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only issue deserving the consideration by any sane White man today is the 14 Words: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." If you are a White male who still wonders why it matters, I give you these 14 more words: "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth." This is why a true White man fights.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.”
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Realm of Light Book II (1931) Epigraph
“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.”
Jo Walton (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They stood out from the rest of the crowd, their beauty and grace otherworldly. I wondered how I'd ever fallen for their human farce. A couple of angels, standing there with wings intact, would be less conspicuous.”
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You see Georgy’s the beauty and Carry’s the wit, and I ought to be the good one, but then I am such a liar.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Benjamin Disraeli at a dinner, comparing herself to her younger sisters Caroline Norton and Georgiana Seymour, as quoted in a letter to his sister, Sarah (14 Feb 1833)
“Oh, Bay of Dublin! How my heart you're troublin', Your beauty haunts me like a fever dream; Like frozen fountains, that the sun sets bubblin' My heart's blood warms when I but hear your name.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I arrived at length at Cairo, mother of cities and seat of Pharaoh the tyrant, mistress of broad regions and fruitful lands, boundless in multitude of buildings, peerless in beauty and splendour, the meeting-place of comer and goer, the halting-place of feeble and mighty, whose throngs surge as the waves of the sea, and can scarce be contained in her for all her size and capacity.”
Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter I (tr. H. A. R. Gibb, 1929, p. 50)
“These be but men. We may forget The wild sea-king, the tawny brave, The frowning wold, the woody shore, The tall-built, sunburnt men of Mars. . .But what and who was she, the fair? The fairest face that ever yet Look'd in a wave as in a glass; That look'd as look the still, far stars, So woman-like, into the wave To contemplate their beauty there, Yet look as looking anywhere?”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I only saw her as she pass'd — A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise. . . . You shall not know her — she who sat Unconscious in my heart all time I dream'd and wove this wayward rhyme, And loved and did not blush thereat.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sunlight of a sunlit land, A land of fruit, of flowers, and A land of love and calm delight; A land where night is not like night, And noon is but a name for rest, And love for love is reckoned best. Where conversations of the eyes Are all enough; where beauty thrills The heart like hues of harvest-home; Where rage lies down, where passion dies, Where peace hath her abiding place. . . .”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the Right, through thickest night, Till the man-brute Wrong be driven From high places; till the Right Shall lift like some grand beacon light. For the Right! Love, Right and duty; Lift the world up, though you fall Heaped with dead before the wall; God can find a soul of beauty Where it falls, as gems of worth Are found by miners dark in earth.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.”
Joseph Silk (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Curious, how any tool properly made acquires a beauty.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power of memory - magic- myth - abstract beauty. I paint pictures that have never been seen before. Visions of another world. At once sensuous and intellectual.”
Stefan Szczesny (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek the timeless, the quintessential in painting.”
Stefan Szczesny (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty, whatever use man may make of it, belongs fundamentally to its Creator, who through it projects into the world of appearances something of His being.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beauty of the sacred is a symbol or a foretaste of, and sometimes a means for, the joy that God alone procures.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cosmic, and more particularly the earthly, function of beauty is to actualize in the intelligent and sensitive creature the Platonic recollection of the archetypes, and thus open the way towards the luminous Night of the one and infinite Essence.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What the virtues are to existential perfection, truths are to intellectual perfection; virtue is essentially simplicity, inward beauty, generosity, whereas truth, for its part, lies entirely in the discernment between the Real and the illusory or between the Absolute and the contingent.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The stability of happiness depends − quite apart from any question of destiny − not only on the beauty and wisdom of our attitude but also, and above all, on an opening towards Heaven which confers upon the experience of happiness a life continually renewed. One must realize in earthly mode that which will be realized in heavenly mode; this is the very definition of nobility of character.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[In sacred art], true genius can develop without making innovations: it attains perfection, depth and power of expression almost imperceptibly by means of the imponderables of truth and beauty ripened in that humility without which there can be no true greatness.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue consists in allowing free passage, in the soul, to the Beauty of God.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue is a ray of the divine Beauty, in which we participate through our nature or through our will, with ease or with difficulty, but always by the grace of God.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every virtue is a participation in the Beauty of the One and a response to His Love.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All life, Omnipotent Father, is thy life! and the eye of religion alone penetrates to the realms of truth and beauty. I am related to thee, and what I behold around me is related to me; all is full of animation, and looks towards me with bright spiritual eyes, and speaks with spirit voices to my heart.”
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) said by 1814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p.125
“Deemest thou, labour Only is earnest? Grave is all beauty, Solemn is joy.”
William Watson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is, without a doubt, complex and confusing. My faith is my sanity. There are people who choose to live on the surface of things. I have yet to find the surface. And with all the beauty in the underneath, I am not certain I want to live on the surface should I find it. I stopped looking a long time ago.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God. Self-forgetfulness, purity, and affection are constant prayers. Practice not profession, understanding not belief, gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence and they assuredly call down infinite blessings.”
Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Raelian Movement is an atheistic religion that perfectly merges science and spirituality, and it includes many female priests. Men and women must rise above their previous cultural conditioning and look to the future with a new awareness encompassing beauty and femininity.”
Raël (born 1946) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spanish Raelian Movement supports Zapatero's female majority cabinet, Raelianews.org (May 14, 2008).
“And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard. You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore? May you know it yet ten more.”
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills.”
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With white tails smoking free, Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show Their kinship to their sisters of the sea – And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow. Still out of hardships bred, Spirits of power and beauty and delight Have ever on such frugal pastures fed And loved to course with tempests through the night.”
Roy Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad — oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.”
Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She’s always so ready to believe anything that anyone tells her, so long as it’s magical. Well, I believe in magic, too, but it’s the magic that can turn a caterpillar into a butterfly, the natural wonder and beauty of the world that’s all around me. I can’t believe in some dreamland being real.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source