"Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?"
Oscar Hammerstein"Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk."
Jack Handey"He contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires."
William Hazlitt"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
Fran Lebowitz"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
James Russell Lowell"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
Henry Miller"Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty."
Christopher Darlington Morley"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."
John Henry Newman"Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,And children's faces looking up,Holding wonder like a cup."
Sara Teasdale