Beauty Quote by P.D. James

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

— Seneca the Younger

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and…

— Barbara Holland

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flower its bloom is shed Or like the snow falls in the river A moment white,…

— Robbie Burns

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

— Francis Bacon

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things,…

— Maria Edgeworth

“He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can see the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke