Tolstoy Beauty Quotes

#1. But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

Shirley Maclaine

#4. He felt that the world that had been shattered was once more stirring to life in his soul, in new beauty and on new and steadfast foundations.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. For him words took away the beauty of what he saw.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.

Dmitry Medvedev

#8. All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

Elvis Presley

#10. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation? ... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

Leo Tolstoy

#12. He felt that the world that have been shattered was once more stern to life and his soul, and new beauty and a new and steadfast foundations.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [ ... ] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. Mankind is a postponed corpse that breeds.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure ... People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. The hero of my tale," Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, "whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and always will be beautiful - is Truth.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life?
Is it possible to love a woman simply for her beauty, to love the statue of a woman?

Leo Tolstoy

#20. I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

Ryan McGinley

#21. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect - the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth - seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. A false tale often betrays itself.

Aesop

#25. Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna, and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so-called Russian, type of beauty. The Emperor noticed her, and honoured her with a dance.

Leo Tolstoy

#26. Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Gretchen Rubin

#27. The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Leo Tolstoy

#28. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Leo Tolstoy

#30. A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

Bill Viola

#31. He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Leo Tolstoy

#32. True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Oscar Wilde