"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty." ― George Byron Topic(s): Beauty More From George Byron "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." "If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom." "What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence." More In Beauty "Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition."― David Herbert Lawrence "I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."― James Weldon Johnson "I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists."― Alexander McQueen