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I would be the happiest man if the gloomy winter of mankind were to give way to a shaft of sunlight and to coloured flowers. The world is very beautiful.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 78—79
- Hope
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 3:11 (KJV)In context
- God
- Time
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MBMarguerite Gardiner Blessington1789–1849Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Desultory Thoughts and Reflections (1839), p. 90
- Happiness
The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. II
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873
- Art
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron1788–1824She Walks in Beauty (1815)In context
- Women
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Nature
A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 13
- Comedy
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Letter to Maxim Gorky (January 3, 1899)
People should be beautiful in every way⁠—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II
A human being should be entirely beautiful: the face, the clothes, the mind, the thoughts.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II, spoken by AstroffIn context
- Character
When a woman is ugly they always say she has beautiful hair or eyes.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act III, spoken by SoniaIn context
- Women
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901)
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Women