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Beauty Quotes

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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
Andre Breton
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
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"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
Christopher Morley
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
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"Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty."
Gabrielle Union
"Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty."
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"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."
Tadao Ando
"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
Phyllis Diller
"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
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"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
Leo Tolstoy
"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
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"This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general."
Cat Stevens
"This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general."
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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
Maria Mitchell
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
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"My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it."
Natasha Henstridge
"My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it."
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"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."
Ruth St. Denis
"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."
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"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
Hans Urs von Balthasar
"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
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"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."
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"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
Robert Mapplethorpe
"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."
Debasish Mridha
"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."
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"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
Xenophon
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
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"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
Gwyneth Paltrow
"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
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"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
Candice Bergen
"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
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"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm."
Edwin Way Teale
"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm."
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
Francis Bacon
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
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"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."
Frederick Sanger
"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."
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"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
Salvador Dali
"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
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"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."
Harrison Ford
"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."
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
David Hockney
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"Beauty is not caused. It is."
Emily Dickinson
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
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"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."
Amy Grant
"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."
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"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
Saint Sequoyah
"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
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"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
Leo Tolstoy
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
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"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."
Roger Penrose
"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."
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"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."
Christopher Marlowe
"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."
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"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
Friedrich Schiller
"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
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"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
Salma Hayek
"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
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"The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder."
Helena Christensen
"The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder."
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"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
Hunter S. Thompson
"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
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"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."
George Jean Nathan
"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."
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"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
Candice Bergen
"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
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"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."
Anouk Aimee
"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."
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"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."
Arthur Cayley
"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."
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"The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable."
Malcolm De Chazal
"The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable."
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"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
Mike Krzyzewski
"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
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"Ashryver eyes.The fairest eyes, from legends oldof brightest, ringed with gold."
Sarah J. Maas
"Ashryver eyes.The fairest eyes, from legends oldof brightest, ringed with gold."
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"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
Charles Lamb
"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
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"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
Michel de Montaigne
"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
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"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you."
Suzanne Collins
"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you."
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"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
Gustave Courbet
"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."
Adriana Lima
"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
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"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
Colleen Atwood
"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
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"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
William Wycherley
"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
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"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."
Donald Trump
"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."
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