"Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty." ― Dodie Smith Topic(s): Beauty More From Dodie Smith "There is something revolting about the way girls’ minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means." More In Beauty "Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."― Walter Pater "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."― Albert Einstein "For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity."― Oscar Niemeyer