Quotes about beauty
144 quotes from 110 people
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 InstituteLoveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the boughBeauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
Paul Klee1879–1940Diary entry (December 1905), # 733, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Letters to MalcolmCommon looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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.
