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“Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined. Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power; Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful, A shining Jacob's ladder of the mind.”
Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.”
Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.”
Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854) said by 1854 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ultimately, what we're doing is giving people confidence. We're probably the only people who have an opinion, who care how ordinary people dress. No one at Vogue magazine gives a shit. They work with the designers, it's more creative and artistic — they are creating something beautiful. But they don't care about how their readers end up looking — whereas we do!”
Susannah Constantine (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. How about the time you gave a large contribution to the Red Cross? Yes, that is no exception to the rule. You gave the Red Cross the donation because you wanted to lend a helping hand; you wanted to do a beautiful, unselfish, divine act.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 40 (in 2016 edition)
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”
Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that everybody is beautiful in his or her own way. If you smile a lot and are confident, then you are a gorgeous person. I don't know whether my looks come from God. I'm not really religious. I don't really know what I am. I'm just trying to be a good person. I am who I am.”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Answering the question, "Why did God make some people more gorgeous than others?" as quoted by The Independent (UK) 19 February 2004.
“They're photographs by Adam Fuss. He's an artist. They are beautiful, artistic photos - more silhouettes than anything else. It's not like, "Hey, Mom and Dad are naked, come check it out!" But if I go to the bathroom and my kid walks in, I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God! Close the door!" They see their parents naked all the time. We are not ashamed.”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Admitting that there are nude photographs of herself and Seal hanging in their bedroom and bathroom. Quoted by Jennifer Weiner in InStyle, February 2010.
“Have fun—a smile is the most beautiful thing on a woman.”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing her beauty philosophy, as quoted by Prevention Magazine, April 2014
“Being seen fully is one of the most beautiful gifts we can give one another.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no point in going out into space if the future that we'll see there is a sterile future living in tin cans. We have to able to recreate in space habitats which are as beautiful as earth-like as the loveliest parts of planet Earth and we can do that.”
Gerard K. O'Neill (1927–1992) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The High Frontier (1976)
“What I'm trying to do when I visit your beautiful country, Australia, is warn Australians that even though it might not be the case today, learn from the mistakes that we made in Europe: be vigilant and look at Islam for what it really is. Islam is not a religion of peace.”
Geert Wilders (born 1963) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anti-Islam campaigner coming to Australia. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast: 13/02/2013. Reporter: Tony Jones.
“Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. For they could not love you, But still your love was true And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry starry night You took your life as lovers often do, But I could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”
Don McLean (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!”
Clarice Cliff (1899–1972) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pasadena Evening Post (1931)
“In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.”
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is Vesalius' Anatomy of Birth -- a book of drawings and diagrams of human anatomy. Beautiful drawings but -- as the pages turn -- terrible in their frankness...”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's like Shelley. Like Werther. Like a Japanese Ophelia. Like a beautiful Oriental Lady in the Lake.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I suppose I have a concern for this extraordinary, beautiful, amazing, exciting, taxonomically brilliant world that we live in, but we keep fucking it up all the time.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview in the Washington DC City Paper, 6 Apr 1990
“Many mellow Cydonian suckets Sweet apples, anthosmial, divine, From the ruby-rimmed beryline buckets Star-gemmed, lily-shaped, hyaline; Like the sweet golden goblet found growing On the wild emerald cucumber-tree, Rich, brilliant, like chrysophrase glowing Was my beautiful Rosalie Lee.”
Thomas Holley Chivers (1809–1858) said by 1858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The voice of one who goes before to make The paths of June more beautiful, is thine Sweet May!”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is more ancient than God, for He was never created; nothing more beautiful than the world, it is the work of that same God; nothing is more active than thought, for it flies over the whole universe; nothing is stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.”
Thales (625–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Love and Live Or Kill and Die: Realities of the Destruction of Human Life (2009) by James H. Wilson, p. 72
“We have two lives about us, Two worlds in which we dwell; Within us, and without us, Alternate Heaven and Hell: Without, the somber Real, Within our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal!”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was beautiful, of course; I couldn't deny that. Everything was green: the trees, their trunks covered with moss, their branches hanging with a canopy of it, the ground covered with ferns. Even the air filtered down greenly through the leaves. It was too green — an alien planet.”
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd never seen anything more beautiful — even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And [Edward's] words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.”
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds — the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions... the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.”
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the things you do with it. You are beautiful.”
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful.”
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”
Yves Saint-Laurent (1936–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
Yves Saint-Laurent (1936–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
“O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret!O first then in all that is human, Lo! first where the Nazarene trod, O woman! O beautiful woman! Be then first in the kingdom of God!”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877), p. 52.
“That was what drew him to mathematics. Not because it was rarefied, but because it probed to the subtle, deeper reality. People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn’t make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn’t give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë’s comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else’s game—and, when your looks failed—finally to lose.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The big fish tubs are completely lined with layers of beautiful herring scales and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered with creamy iridescent coats of mail, with small iridescent flies crawling on them.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Winning the lottery is like slipping your hand into the bra of the most beautiful woman in the world, then getting it stuck and having to saw it off at the wrist. (Chapter Eight)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beautiful is not that which we love and because we love it, but that which by its objective value obliges us to love it.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Will for the Good and love of the Beautiful are the necessary concomitants of knowledge of the True, and their repercussions are incalculable.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They sat and combed their beautiful hair, Their long, bright tresses, one by one, As they laughed and talked in the chamber there, After the revel was done.”
Nora Perry (1831–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is … for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.”
A. J. Ayer (1910–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his greater appreciation of the scenery of the world, after his near-death experience, as quoted in "Did atheist philosopher see God when he 'died'?" by William Cash, in National Post (3 March 2001).
“[Twilight] argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”
John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've always regarded eroticism as a beautiful word. I'm not ashamed to be linked to it. I would be ashamed to be linked to flamboyant sexuality; that's a part of life, but it isn't all of it.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.”
Daniel Tammet (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While all these are disturbed and divided by the multifarious objects to which their thoughts must be applied, the Philosopher pursues, in solitary silence and in unbroken concentration of mind, his single and undeviating course towards the Good, the Beautiful, and the True; and that is his daily labour, to which others can only resort at times for rest and refreshment after toil.”
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) said by 1814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O be less beautiful, or be less brief.”
William Watson (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a moment, sitting there in above the city, I imagined life outside narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasures and attention. I wondered what it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere I go being reminded of myself.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This also is a beautiful circumstance, that they referred every thing to Pythagoras, and called it by his name, and that they did not ascribe to themselves the glory of their own inventions, except very rarely.”
Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember, when we were still living in the Soviet Union, Mum would rush by like the wind in our apartment, covered with fur, or even running from one movie scene to the next, because she was a movie star there. Even if it was 40ºF outside, she always wore a miniskirt. For me, she was the most beautiful of all women.”
Milla Jovovich (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All her youth is gone, her beautiful youth outworn, Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her home No longer know her step on the upland tracks forlorn Where she was wont to roam.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mariana In The North"; also in Country Life Vol. 50 (1921), p. 738
“All her lovers have passed, her beautiful lovers have passed, The young and eager men that fought for her arrogant hand, And the only voice which endures to mourn for her at the last Is the voice of the lonely land.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source