William Hazlitt Quotes

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

All is as beautiful as we think it.