Quotes: Beauty

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don’t know they are.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.