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Letter "B" » Beauty
«For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.»
«Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?»
«Handsome is as handsome does.»
«Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Beauty,
Conversation,
Nature,
Wit
| Keywords:
agreeable, amiable, countenance, good nature
«Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.»
«Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Beauty,
Sin,
Women
| Keywords:
constitute, minor, sacrament, sacraments, the sacrament
«Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it»
«Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.»
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
| Keywords:
accepts, beauties, cruelties, cultures, custom, human culture, it accepts, overlap, overlapping, patiently, Real Character, reduced, sufferings, tradition, Two Cultures
«Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats»
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