Henry Van Dyke Quotes

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

I abhor mere prettiness.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.