I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.