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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Often credited to Emily Dickinson
- Marriage
In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing, is what I am doing, beautiful or not?
CGCarolyn Gifford
- Morality
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
I have always been offended by the song that says, ‘Everything is beautiful in its own way.’ If everything is beautiful, then the word ‘beautiful’ has no meaning. If everything were purple, there would be no word ‘purple’ in the language because it would not distinguish one thing from another.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
Andy Warhol1928–1987
- Intelligence
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
Ambrose Philips1674–1749Often credited to Frank Moore Colby
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Of Beauty
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Beauty
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Starting from Paumanok. 12
- Life & Death
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)
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, section 1.
- Music
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus Aurelius121–180IV, 20
The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they’re seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?
André Gide1869–1951The Immoralist (1902), p. 159
- Art
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Round Table (1815-1817), “On Manner”
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute
- Love