Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.
John Abbott
1. "The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
2. "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."
Ray Evans, "To Each His Own"
Other categories: Nature and Animals
3. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature."
Gérard De Nerval
Other categories: Nature and Animals
4. "Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
John Ruskin
Other categories: Nature and Animals
5. "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
Gaston Bachelard
6. "The human face is the organic seat of beauty."
Eliza Farnham, "Woman and Her Era"
Other categories: Human
7. "It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that’s not true. There are times when it depresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman."
Catherine Deneuve
8. "You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."
Anouk Aimée
Other categories: Youth and Age
9. "Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm."
Brian Masters
Other categories: Good and Evil
10. "Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."
Jean Anouilh, "Becket"
Other categories: God and Religion
11. "Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."
William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"
12. "The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."
William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"
13. "Beauty is a fragile gift."
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Ars Amatoria"
14. "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"
Other categories: Art and Culture
15. "At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
Honoré De Balzac
Other categories: Woman and Man -:- Talent and Genius
16. "Love is a great beautifier."
Louisa May Alcott
Other categories: Love
17. "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
Jean Kerr
18. "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
John Constable
Other categories: Marriage
19. "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
Anne Frank
Other categories: Happiness
20. "If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
Benjamin Franklin
Other categories: Love
21. "The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."
Persian proverb
Other categories: Various
22. "Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."
Friedrich von Schiller
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
23. "The key to education is the experience of beauty."
Friedrich von Schiller
Other categories: Education
24. "Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
Laurette Taylor
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
25. "Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life."
Friedrich von Schiller
Other categories: Woman and Man
26. "Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."
Munshi Premchand
27. "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Other categories: Nature and Animals
28. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
Friedrich von Schiller
29. "Beauty is quite different from charm, beauty is what you notice in a woman, charm is when a woman notices you."
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30. "Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive."
Roy Campbell
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
31. "Small is beautiful."
E. F. Schumacher
32. "In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope."
Charles Revson
Other categories: Optimism and Hope
33. "He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect."
Henry Ward Beecher
Other categories: Nature and Animals
34. "The true subject of science is the beauty of the world."
Simone Weil
Other categories: Science and Technology
35. "Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
Charles Reade
36. "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."
Kenneth Tynan
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
37. "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."
Bertrand Russell, "Philosophical Essays"
Other categories: Science and Technology
38. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
Albert Camus, "Notebooks"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Question and Problem
39. "You can't escape destiny if it has beautiful eyes."
Lidia Jasinska
Other categories: Destiny and Fate
40. "There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way."
Karl Kraus
Other categories: Woman and Man
41. "The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life."
Karl Kraus
42. "Good is only beauty put into practice."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Other categories: God and Religion
43. "All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."
Joseph Joubert
Other categories: Nature and Animals
44. "Genius lasts longer than beauty."
Oscar Wilde
Other categories: Talent and Genius
45. "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince"
Other categories: Nature and Animals
46. "Beauty can pierce one like pain."
Thomas Mann
Other categories: Pain and Tears
47. "Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."
Karl Kraus
Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Love
48. "The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"
Other categories: God and Religion
49. "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder."
Herbert George Wells
50. "There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Defendant"
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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