Great Beauty Quotes

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

I even like the Scottish weather because, like everywhere in the U.K., you can't have great beauty without lots of rain.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.