Quotes about beauty
144 quotes from 110 people
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Colette1873–1954Gigi (1945)
John Constable1776–1837Remark to a lady, as quoted in C. R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)
Democritus460–360 BCFreeman (1948), p. 161
Paul Dirac1902–1984The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature (1963)
John Donne1572–1631Elegies, No. 2, The Anagram, line 27No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.John Donne1572–1631Elegies, No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963“Criteria of Negro Art”, The Crisis (October 1926)
Jonathan Edwards1703–1758“The Beauty of the World” (c.1725), from the notebook The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature (published 1948).Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
George Eliot1819–1880Adam Bede (1859)
