Quotes about Beauty

This was Miss Blanche's daughter? She was a mess. A beautiful mess.

Sometimes it does a chap's heart good to rescue a beautiful woman. Makes him remember why God rescued him.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.