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Beauty Quotes


"One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness."


"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."


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


"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."


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


"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."


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


"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."


"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."


"We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children."


"A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement."


"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."


"I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop."


"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."


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


"The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable."


"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."


"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."


"So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing."


"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."


"Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."
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