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Category: Beauty and Ugliness

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1. "The true subject of science is the beauty of the world."

Simone Weil

Quotations about: Science and Technology

2. "Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

Charles Reade

3. "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."

Kenneth Tynan

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

4. "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

Bertrand Russell, "Philosophical Essays"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

5. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Albert Camus, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Question and Problem

6. "You can't escape destiny if it has beautiful eyes."

Lidia Jasinska

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

7. "There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way."

Karl Kraus

Quotations about: Woman and Man

8. "The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life."

Karl Kraus

9. "Good is only beauty put into practice."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: God and Religion

10. "All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

11. "Genius lasts longer than beauty."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

12. "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

13. "Beauty can pierce one like pain."

Thomas Mann

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

14. "Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."

Karl Kraus

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Love

15. "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"

Quotations about: God and Religion

16. "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder."

Herbert George Wells

17. "There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Defendant"

18. "Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

19. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller

20. "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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21. "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

Confucius

22. "There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

John Kenneth Galbraith

23. "Love gives beauty to everything it touches."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Love

24. "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone."

Anon.

25. "Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it."

George Eliot, "Adam Bede"

Quotations about: Various

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