Best beauty & literature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.”

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Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.”

Helping Literature Force Women Beauty Speech Witty Features Handsome

Author:Kin Hubbard

“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”

Literature Beauty Talent Promise Fifteen

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

Mind Pain Literature Grief Behinds Beauty Loneliness Shadow Lonely Fleeting Being Alone Visitors Feeling Lonely Souvenirs

Author:Christopher Morley

“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”

Time Literature Pleasure Quality Beauty Essentials Dues Representation Aquariums

Book:Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

“Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”

Ifs Men Literature Beauty Gold Silver Magnet Gold And Silver

Author:Jean Paul

“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”

Has Beens Literature Party Beauty Study Fool Fruit Rounds Mood

Author:Jean Paul

“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”

Thinking World Littles Joy Literature Beauty Forever Weight Pounds Walt Premium

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”

Inspirational Form Literature Beauty Grace Influence

Book:On The Aesthetic Education Of Man

Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man

“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”

Literature Beauty Attractive Sublime

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

Mind Body Literature Women Beauty Taught Shapes Prison Rounds Feminist Womens Rights Cages Infancy Roaming Women Rights Vindication Women Right Infancy Is Body Shapes

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

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Author:John Keats

“Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series

“When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.”

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Author:Frederick Sanger

“A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.”

Wells Art Made Literature Interesting Beauty Demand Ordinary Works Of Art Great Work Well Dressed

Book:At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe

Source: At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe

“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”

Literature Beauty Keys

Book:Schiller and Aesthetic Education Today

Source: Schiller and Aesthetic Education Today

“The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.”

World Literature Beauty Possibility Hopeful Eggs Handsome Analogies Dubious

Book:Works of George Eliot

Source: Works of George Eliot

“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”

Literature Beauty Connections Nonsense Nonsensical

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change. Psalm 139:23 - 24”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.”

Wisdom Poetry Quotes Literature Perfect Beauty Balance Thoughts Perfection Poetry Quotes Imperfection Imperfect Dejan Stojanovic Literature Quotes Juxtaposition

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

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