Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Beauty Quotes

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at...

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at...

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses....

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses....

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and...

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and...

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with...

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with...

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams,...

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams,...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to...

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to...

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's...

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's...

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.