Quotes
<< Prev Next >>
An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness
The perception of beauty is a moral test
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise
Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays