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“To worthiest things, virtue, art, beauty, fortune, now I see, rareness of use, not nature value brings.”
John Donne (attributed) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in C. N. Douglas, ed., Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (disputed) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whise…
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Jawaharlal Nehru (attributed) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Building A Life Of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 74
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi (attributed) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Linda J. Ferguson, Path for Greatness: Spiritualty at Work (2000) p. 51
“This universe is a drop from the ocean of his beauty, unable from its fulness to find place in the parent bosom.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such grace and beauty and loveliness and bestowal of life, O misery and error, if anyone dispense with Him! Fly, fly O bird, to thy native home, For thou hast escaped from the cage, and thy pinions are outspread. Travel away from the bitter stream towards the water of life, Return from the vestibule to the high seat of the soul.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let others grow pale from fear of misfortune, Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain. For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder Still smiles on, and it is never cast down. It says ‘Why should I fall into grief in disgrace? I gather beauty even from the thorn of disgrace.’ What is Sufism? ’Tis to find joy in the heart Whensoever distress and care assail it.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you desire that God may be pleasing to you, Then look at Him with the eyes of those that love Him. Look not at that Beauty with your own eyes, Look at that Object of desire with His votaries’ eyes.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The soul resembles a clear mirror, the body is dust upon it, Our beauty is invisible since we are under the dust.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am ever in concord with this father of ours, And earth ever appears to me as a Paradise; Each moment a fresh form, a new beauty, So that weariness vanishes at these ever-fresh sights; I see the world filled with blessings, Fresh waters ever welling up from new fountains.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“None but God hath contemplated the beauty of God.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Defects are the mirrors of the attributes of beauty The base is the mirror of the High and Glorious One, Because one contrary shows forth its contrary As honey’s sweetness is shown by vinegar’s sourness, Who recognises and confesses his own defects Is hastening in the way that leads to perfection.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is the perfect world, yet He is single, He holds in hand the writing of the whole of existence, Wherefore all forms and colours of beauty cry out, ‘Good news! good news! lo! the spring is at hand!’”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My heart is weary of these weak-spirited companions, I desire the Lion of God (Ali) and Rustam son of Zal, Filings of beauty are in the possession of every one that exists, I desire that quarry and that mine of exquisite loveliness.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But they all do sort of the same thing, and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and they remind you of the beauty of pretty simple things. You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's 24 letters in between... You turn on... tune in... and you drop out...”
Timothy Leary (misattributed) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Grace Slick, and Leary are both quoted in the Infected Mushroom song "Drop out" on the EP Deeply Disturbed (2003), but only the final portion actually quotes Leary.
“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.”
Michel de Montaigne (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. [Elle est désirée pour la salir. Non pour elle-même, mais pour la joie goûtée dans la certitude de la profaner.]”
Tom Stoppard (misattributed) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Georges Bataille, Erotism (1962) [City Lights Books, 1991, trans. Mary Dalwood, ], part I, ch. XIII, p. 144
“As a beauty I'm not a great star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face, I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it — Tis the people in front that I jar.”
Woodrow Wilson (misattributed) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 131-32; Boller and George note that Wilson was so fond of …
“The giant female bodybuilder proves unthinking people wrong who believe feminine beauty can never be harmonious with well developed musculature.”
Robert Crumb (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.”
Wallace Stevens (attributed) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Bart Eeckhout, Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002), Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
“Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.”
Sophie Swetchine (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.”
Charles Buxton (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”
Wendell Phillips (attributed) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture: The Lost Arts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.”
Matthew Arnold (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even in days of loss and sorrow, beauty remains, and I am ever grateful.”
Friedrich Kellner (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of heaven; a happiness That, even above the smiles and frowns of fate, Exalts great Nature’s favorites; a wealth That ne’er encumbers, nor can be transferr’d.”
John Armstrong (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.”
Mark Akenside (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus was beauty sent from heaven, the lovely ministress of truth and good in this dark world.”
Mark Akenside (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.”
Ninon de L'Enclos (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.”
Henry Benjamin Whipple (misattributed) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported as being by Henry Benjamin Whipple in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 3. Actually a misquotation from Edwin Percy Whipple, "Loafing and Laboring", The North…
“Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.”
Amos Bronson Alcott (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes it’s the little, insignificant stuff that can tear you down. I try not to read gossip as a rule, but the other day a website ran an article with a picture of me wearing sweatpants on the way to the gym. The writer asked, “Why does [this] petite beauty insist upon dressing like a massive man?” *pause* Because I like to be comfortable.”
Elliot Page (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.”
Raphael (attributed) first seen 1001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from: 1001 quotations to inspire you before you die; Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4
“Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden.”
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.”
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.”
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.”
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty — a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life.”
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.”
Fredrika Bremer (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.”
Fredrika Bremer (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was evident was that Mozart was simply written down music already finished in his head. And music, finished as no music is ever finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at an absolute beauty.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) said by 1791 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty will snatch us by the heart and love us until we are raw with understanding.”
“While the enslavement of African Americans was an unavoidable historical fact, so was the historical record of their courage in the face of mortal danger, their strength before seemingly insurmountable odds, their faith when confronted with conditions that had driven others to faithless despair, and their evocation of beauty and genius under oppressive circumstances that did not encourage either.”
“Whether naïve on my part or not, it seemed worth taking the time to try to convince others that their lives possessed beauty and meaning worth preserving and honoring.”
“This slogAn - tun on... tun... tun on Ukraine for you - is the slogAn of our country's promo-campaign to Euro 2012. In order to tun Ukraine on, I would like to say that it is enough to see it with your own eyes at the time when in Kyiv, chestnuts will blossom. And when warm weather comes around, and in Ukrainian cities, women will start to undress. It is a wonder to see this beauty.”
Viktor Yanukovych (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,-- Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source