“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.”
Attributed in Lewis Copeland, Best Quotations for All Occasions (1965), p. 19
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Ninon de L'Enclos2
French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the ar… 1620–1705Related quotes
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) playwright and writer
Source: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Context: I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
As quoted in New York World Telegram & Sun (21 August 1960); also in Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion (2004) by Joseph Abboud, p. 79
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print
“All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
As quoted in Lichtenberg : A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions (1959) by Joseph Peter Stern, p. 84
Context: All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
