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  • Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.

    - Edwin E(ugene) Jr known as  'Buzz' Aldrin
      Spoken as he stepped out of the Eagle to join Neil Armstrong on the first moon walk, 20  Jul.

  • Black is beautiful.

    -Anonymous
      US black civil rights movement.

  • ‚Y yo, yo, Sen‹  or, no tendre   nunca una querida tan linda como esa querida que lucen los cromos de los libros viciosos! And I, Sir,I'll never havea mistress asbeautifulasthose in the pictures of obscene books!

    - Roberto Arlt
      El juguete rabioso ('The Rabid Toy'), ch.2.

  • You are suspended in me beautiful and frozen, I preserve you, in me you are safe.

    - Margaret Eleanor Atwood
      You  Are Happy,'Tricks with Mirrors'.

  • Parce que le Beau est toujours e  tonnant, il serait absurde de supposer que ce qui est e  tonnant est toujours beau. Just because the beautiful is always shocking, it would be absurd to suppose that that which is shocking is always beautiful.

    - Charles Baudelaire
      Le Spleen de Paris,'Salon de1859', pt.2.

  • Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the L said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD1 Samuel16:12.

  • Great is the L, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 48:1^2.

  • How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion,Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the L shall bring again Zion.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDIsaiah 52:7^8.

  • Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 23:27.

  • Life, if you have a bent for it, is a beautiful thing. It consists, I do believe, of having a sense of urgency. 174

    - C(harles) L(uther) Burton
      A Sense of Urgency: Memoirs of a Canadian Merchant.

  • I am forgetting myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep. This is wrong. A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it.

    - Samuel Butler
      Of Mt Cook.  A FirstYear in Canterbury Settlement.

  • When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

    - Anton Chekhov
      Uncle Vanya, act 3.

  • He desired all beautiful thingseven God.

    - G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
      Of Oscar  Wilde. In the Daily News,19 Oct.

  • Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

    -Jean Cocteau
      In the NewYork World-Telegram and Sun, 21  Aug.

  • The saddest and most beautiful sight I have ever seen.

    - Kenny Dalglish
      Of the display of flowers and club scarfs that were piled on Liverpool's  Anfield pitch in memory of those who died in the Hillsborough football disaster. Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

  •    People don't very much like things that are beautifultheyare so far from their nasty little minds.

    - Regis Debray
      Letter.

  • Aren't all beautiful things made by renunciation?

    - (Hilaire Germain) Edgar Degas
    Quoted in P Lafond Degas (1918^9).

  •    Oh! They're too beautiful to live, much too beautiful!

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^9  Mrs Kenwigs, of her four daughters. Nicholas Nickleby, ch.14.

  • How beautiful the Republic wasunder the Empire.

    - Edouard Durranc
    Quoted in Edgar Holt  The Tiger: The Life of Georges Clemenceau 1841^1929 (1976).

  • Though wetravel theworld over tofind the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
    Essays: First Series,'Art'.

  • A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.

    -JuliusJ Epstein
      Mr Skeffington (with Philip Epstein).

  • The Beautiful and the Damned.

    - F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
       Title of novel.

  • Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o  u' il y a le moins de matie'  re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense  e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.

    - Gustave Flaubert
      Letter to Mme Louise Colet,16  Jan.

  • Il faut e  crire pour soi, avant tout. C'est la seule chance de faire beau. It isnecessary to write for oneself, above all.It isthe only hope of creating something beautiful.

    - Gustave Flaubert
      Letter to Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie,11  Jul.

  • Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

    - Stephen Collins Foster
      'Beautiful Dreamer'.

  •    A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

    - Helen Frankenthaler
      Quoted in Ian Crofton (ed)  A Dictionary of  Art Quotations (1988).

  • C'est avec de beaux sentiments qu'on fait de la mauvaise litte  rature. Bad literature is written with beautiful sentiments.

    - Andre   Paul Guillaume Gide
      Letter to Fran c° ois Mauriac.

  • And bound for the same bourn as I, On every road I wandered by, Trod beside me, close and dear, The beautiful and death-struck year.

    - A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
      A Shropshire Lad, no.41.

  • Las grandes bellezas de la creacio  n no pueden a un tiempo ser vistas y cantadas: es necesario que vuelvan al alma empalidecidas por la memoria infiel. The most beautiful things on earth cannot be seen and sung at the same time: they must return to the soul weakened by unfaithful memory.

    -Jorge Isaacs
      Mar|  a, ch.2 (translated as Mar|  a:  A South  American Romance,1977).

  • Summer afternoonsummer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

    - Henry James
    Quoted in Edith Wharton  A Backward Glance (1934), ch.10, section 6.

  • Une belle femme qui a les qualite  s d'un honne"  te homme est ce qu'il y a au monde d'un commerce plus de  licieux: l'on trouve en elle tout le me  rite des deux sexes. A beautiful woman who has the qualities of a gentleman is the most pleasing person in all the world: one finds in her all the merit of both sexes.

    -Jean de La Bruye'  re
      Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des femmes', no.13.

  • Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

    - Edna St Vincent Millay
      The Buck in the Snow,'Dirge Without Music'.

  • Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

    -J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer
      In Look magazine.

  • House Beautiful is play lousy.

    - Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
      Review in the NewYorker. Quoted in P Hartnoll Plays and Players (1984).

  • The scientist doesnot study nature because it isuseful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.

    - (Jules) Henri Poincare 
      Science and Method, vol.1, ch.1 (translated by Francis Maitland).

  • O the Harbour of Fowey Is a beautiful spot, And it's there I enjowey To sail in a yot; Or to race in a yacht Round a mark or a buoy Such a beautiful spacht Is the Harbour of Fuoy!

    - SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
      A Fowey Garland,'The Harbour of Fowey'.

  • The perpetual hunger to be beautifuland thatthirsttobe loved which is the real curse of Eve.

    -Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
      The Left Bank,'Illusion'.

  • Machines are worshipped because theyare beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.

    - Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
      Sceptical Essays.

  • L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila'   la religion que je cherche. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.

    - Sir Sydney Samuelson
      Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean.

  • Die Szenen unsers Lebens gleichen den Bildern in groÞer Mosaik, welche in der N a« he keineWirkung tun, sondern von denen man fern stehn muss, um sie sch o« n zu finden. Thescenes ofour liferesemble picturesinrough mosaic; theyareineffective fromcloseup, and havetobe viewed from a distance if theyare to seem beautiful.

    - Arthur Schopenhauer
    Parerga und Paralipomena, ch.11 (translated by R J Hollingdale).

  • Ihaveno doubtthat it ispossibletogiveanewdirectionto technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.

    - E(rnst) F(riedrich) Schumacher
      Small Is Beautiful.

  • The most beautiful sight in orbit†is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals whichgo out almost ina hemisphere† It'sreally a spectacular sight.

    - Russell Schweikart
    The NextWhole Earth Catalog.

  • Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good: I am a God and cannot find it there.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      Prometheus Unbound act1, l.638^40.

  • For she was beautifulher beauty made The bright world dim, and everything beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'TheWitch of Atlas', stanza12.

  • A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swift A love in desolation masked;a Power Girt round with weakness;it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;even whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Adonais, stanza 32.

  •   An isle under Ionian skies Beautiful as a wreck of Paradise.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Epipsychidion', l.422^3.

  • The ground is like a beautiful woman. If you treat her gently, she'll tell you all her secrets.

    - Clyde Collins Snow
    On exploring the massacre of thousands of Mayan Indians in Guatemala in the early1980s. In theWashington Post,18 Dec.

  • Woman, silence makes a woman beautiful.

    -Sophocles
    Ajax, 293 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

  • So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating heartsand living affections,onlyassomany things belonging tothemasterso long asthefailure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless miseryand toilso long is it impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

    - Harriet (Elizabeth) ne  e Beecher Stowe
      UncleTom's Cabin, ch.1.

  • Ah beautiful passionate body That never has ached with a heart!

    - Algernon Charles Swinburne
      Poems and Ballads,'Dolores', stanza11.

  • Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

    - Hal Wallis
      Closing words of Casablanca, one of his contributions to a script largely written by the Epstein twins and Howard Koch.

  •    A football team is like a beautiful woman.When you do not tell her so, she forgets she is beautiful.

    - Arse'  ne Wenger
      In TheTimes, 28 Dec.

  • And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

    -Walt(er) Whitman
      Leaves of Grass,'Proto-Leaf', later renamed 'Starting From Paumanok' (from1867).

  •    It is better to be beautiful than to be good.But†it is better to be good than to be ugly.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.17.

  • The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth andConMarkiewicz', l.24^5. Collected in TheWinding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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