Joseph Addison Quotes

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people.

Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.

We all know you're beautiful, Scott.

Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.

You look beautiful - David

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.