Aesthetes Quotes

#1. That civilised life cannot be lived without taboos - that some of them may indeed be justified, and that therefore taboo is not in itself an evil to be vanquished - is a thought too subtle for the aesthetes of nihilism.

Theodore Dalrymple

#2. A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

Frank Gehry

#3. Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

Donald Bradman

#5. Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#6. Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

Terry Teachout

#7. The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

J.D. Salinger

#8. Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

Virginia Postrel

#9. To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

George Santayana

#10. Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley

#11. There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

Anonymous

#12. You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his dog....

Peary Perry

#13. Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.

Louis B. Mayer

#14. Here's to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx underpants.

Susan McBride

#15. When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

Kristin Armstrong

#16. It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

George R R Martin

#18. Jared, no. Please don't do this. Don't leave me. I love you.

A.L. Jackson

#19. Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.

P.C. Cast

#20. But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

Immanuel Kant

#21. My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#22. The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

Conrad Hall