Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers’s of this earthly life, especially for their owner.
She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success – a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances.
There’s beauty in the silver singing river, There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love’s eyes. (Robert Zimmerman)
If you seek happiness and beauty simultaneously you will attain neither one or the other, for the price of beauty is self-denial. Art, like the Jewish God, wallows in sacrifices.
No poet worth his salt is going to be handsome; if he or she is beautiful, there is no need to create the beautiful.
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
There is in true beauty something which vulgar cannot admire.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from starlike eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.
