Admiration Quote by Jack Vance

Beauty was made for attraction not for affection

— Lara Flores

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

— Octavio Paz

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was…

— Sigmund Freud

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.

— Paul Serusier

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

— Anonymous

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards…

— Roger Scruton

Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a…

— Faraaz Kazi

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty…

— Simone Weil

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

— John Galsworthy