What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. – Pablo Neruda
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate. – Victor Hugo
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. – Timothy Radcliffe
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. – John Ruskin
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. – Thomas Carlyle
Exuberance is beauty. – William Blake
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. – Stephen Hawking
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. – Arthur Helps
Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. – W. Somerset Maugham
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. – Galileo Galilei
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. – Edmund Burke
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. – Walt Whitman
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. – George Jean Nathan
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. – William Hazlitt
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
