Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.

-Aldrin, Edwin E(ugene) Jr known as  'Buzz'
  Spoken as he stepped out of the Eagle to join Neil Armstrong on the first moon walk, 20  Jul.

Black is beautiful.

-Anonymous
  US black civil rights movement.

‚Y yo, yo, Sen‹  or, no tendre¤   nunca una querida tan linda como esa querida que lucen los cromos de los libros viciosos! And I, Sir,I'll never havea mistress asbeautifulasthose in the pictures of obscene books!

-Arlt, Roberto
  El juguete rabioso ('The Rabid Toy'), ch.2.

You are suspended in me beautiful and frozen, I preserve you, in me you are safe.

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  You  Are Happy,'Tricks with Mirrors'.

Parce que le Beau est toujours e¤  tonnant, il serait absurde de supposer que ce qui est e¤  tonnant est toujours beau. Just because the beautiful is always shocking, it would be absurd to suppose that that which is shocking is always beautiful.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Le Spleen de Paris,'Salon de1859', pt.2.

Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the L said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD1 Samuel16:12.

Great is the L, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 48:1^2.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion,Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the L shall bring again Zion.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 52:7^8.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 23:27.

Life, if you have a bent for it, is a beautiful thing. It consists, I do believe, of having a sense of urgency. 174

-Burton, C(harles) L(uther)
  A Sense of Urgency: Memoirs of a Canadian Merchant.

I am forgetting myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep. This is wrong. A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it.

-Butler, Samuel
  Of Mt Cook.  A FirstYear in Canterbury Settlement.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

-Chekhov, Anton
  Uncle Vanya, act 3.

He desired all beautiful thingsöeven God.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Of Oscar  Wilde. In the Daily News,19 Oct.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

-Cocteau,Jean
  In the NewYork World-Telegram and Sun, 21  Aug.

The saddest and most beautiful sight I have ever seen.

-Dalglish, Kenny
  Of the display of flowers and club scarfs that were piled on Liverpool's  Anfield pitch in memory of those who died in the Hillsborough football disaster. Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

   People don't very much like things that are beautifulötheyare so far from their nasty little minds.

-Debray, Regis
  Letter.

Aren't all beautiful things made by renunciation?

-Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar
Quoted in P Lafond Degas (1918^9).

   Oh! They're too beautiful to live, much too beautiful!

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Mrs Kenwigs, of her four daughters. Nicholas Nickleby, ch.14.

How beautiful the Republic wasöunder the Empire.

-Durranc, Edouard
Quoted in Edgar Holt  The Tiger: The Life of Georges Clemenceau 1841^1929 (1976).

Though wetravel theworld over tofind the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
Essays: First Series,'Art'.