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Beauty Quotes



"The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other."



"It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality."


"I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within."


"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."


"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."


"To find beauty, look above the boundaries of conformity."


"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."


"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."


"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."


"It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself."


"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."


"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."


"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."


"Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind."


"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."


"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."



"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."


"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."



"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."



"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."


"As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul."


"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."



"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."


"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."


"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."


"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."


"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
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