Beauty Quote by Edith Wharton

“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - and airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...

— Alexander Pushkin

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its…

— Honore de Balzac

“Those who visited that exhibition-room found an auto-de-fé of immense skies in ignition, globes blotted out by bleeding suns; hemorrhages of stars, flowing down…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Our priestesses have always taught that divinity, by virtue of its great power, must encompass both beauty and terror.”

— Laini Taylor

“The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit is of great worth in God's sight. ”

— Judith Couchman

“Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers, others call a fleet the most beautiful of sights the dark earth offers, but I say…

— Sappho

“When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies…

— William Shakespeare

Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic…

— Roger Scruton

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the…

— Rudolf Otto

“Some say an army of horsemen, some of footsoldiers, some of ships, is the fairest thing on the black earth, but I say it…

— Sappho

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their…

— Henry David Thoreau