All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.