Famous Quotes

"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."

Percy Bysshe Shelley on Beauty

More quotes about Beauty

• "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

  Confucius on Beauty

• "To love beauty is to see light."

  Victor Hugo on Beauty

• "Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."

  Amanda Peet on Beauty

• "A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

  Anne Roiphe on Beauty

• "People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Beauty

More quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

• "Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."

• "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

• "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

• "Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

• "Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted."