Best beauty & delight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.”

Mind Feelings Beauty Environment Sadness Inspire Delight Forests Sensitive Impress Grandeur Susceptible Nature Beauty Primeval

Author:Ferdinand von Mueller

“Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

Needs Mind Moments Would Be Running Moving Beauty Delight Stability Delightful Suspended Vertigo

Author:Anne Carson

“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Knows Men May Soul Dream Running Lying Stars Half Beauty Worship Delight Setting Settings Wander Streams Altars Beam Ripple Gleam Afar Wands

Book:The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

Source: The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

“Mortal beauty stings while it delights.”

Beauty Delight Mortals

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.”

Mind Firsts Joy Beauty Discovery Delight Spread Strikes Faculty Inward Cheerfulness

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?”

Beauty Delight Rely Fleeting Momentary Rely Upon

Author:Seneca the Younger

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.”

Ifs Men May Use Home Earth Beauty Greater Plant Delight Labour Provoking Jewels Robes

Author:John Gerard

“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”

Giving May States Earth Beauty Garden Delight Ugly Impression Spots Gardening Tamed Beauty Of The Earth Jekyll

Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

“Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.”

Doe Has Beens Beauty Struggle Design Quiet Delight Rhythm Combination Communion Elegance Utility Symmetry Life Struggle Orderliness Communion With Nature

Book:History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

Source: History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

“Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.”

Littles Beauty Delight Appeals Splendor

Author:Euripides

“Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.”

Nature Quality Beauty Objects Relation Delight Harmonious

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

Men Life Kind Beauty Kindness Delight Bait Allure

Author:Socrates

“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.”

Science Beauty Delight Invisible Visible

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.”

Kind Matter Beauty Delight Appearance Gentle What Matters Disposition Inner Beauty Gracious Outward Appearance Outward Beauty

Author:Saint Peter

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