Quotes about Beauty

William Temple, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the difficult days of World War II. He wrote, "To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God."

Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.

Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.

Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.

Clouds, too, can give light if only the sun shines on them.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces!

But more than that, I felt - no, not beautiful. Even on such a romantic day as this I could not persuade myself of that. I knew that my jaw was too square, my legs too long, my hands too large. But I earnestly believed - and all the books agreed - that I would look beautiful to the man who loved me.

I knew we'd been out there on the water a long time when the sun began its colorful descent to meet the horizon.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.