Bear patiently with a rival.

- Ovid

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.

- Ovid

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

- Ovid

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

- Ovid

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

- Ovid

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

- Ovid

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

- Thomas Mann

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

- H. R. Giger

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

- Luis Barragan

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

- Benjamin Britten

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

- Jacqueline Bisset