How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! How many courtiers, how many slaves, have submitted to it! But alas! Why must it be that what flatters our senses almost always deceives our souls?
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Beauty’s a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish’d once, for ever’s lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. (The Passionate Pilgrim)
Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. (As You Like It)
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Beauty is only sin deep.
From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die. (Sonnet 1)
Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire – all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its soul in beauty. This must be your contribution to the world.
