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Beauty Quotes

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"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."
Annie Dillard
"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."
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"Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."
Suzanne Collins
"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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"I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life."
Tobey Maguire
"I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life."
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"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
Laurence J. Peter
"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
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"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
George William Russell
"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
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"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."
Charles Churchill
"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
Dante Alighieri
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
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"He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral."
John Galsworthy
"He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral."
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"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."
Lindsay Lohan
"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."
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"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."
Kevyn Aucoin
"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."
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"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty."
Timothy Radcliffe
"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty."
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"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
Joseph Wood Krutch
"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
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"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
Maria Montessori
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
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"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."
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"Beauty is not just physical."
Halle Berry
"Beauty is not just physical."
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"Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."
Lord Chesterfield
"Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."
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"Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge."
Jeanne Moreau
"Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge."
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"The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks."
Richard Le Gallienne
"The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks."
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"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
Mary MacLane
"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
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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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"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
Edmund Burke
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
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"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."
Janice Dickinson
"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."
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"And there's you. You're just beautiful. Effortlessly beautiful, like nature. You have the trinity of beauty: a beautiful heart, a beautiful mind, and a beautiful soul."
Kamand Kojouri
"And there's you. You're just beautiful. Effortlessly beautiful, like nature. You have the trinity of beauty: a beautiful heart, a beautiful mind, and a beautiful soul."
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"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."
Euripides
"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
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"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty."
Margot Asquith
"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty."
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"Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity."
Pindar
"Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity."
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"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
David Allan Coe
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Michelangelo
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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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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"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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"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time."
Karl Lagerfeld
"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time."
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"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
Edmund Waller
"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
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"She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body."
Nenia Campbell
"She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body."
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"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
Michel de Montaigne
"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
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"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."
Hans Urs von Balthasar
"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."
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"The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance."
Annie Dillard
"The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance."
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"Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes."
Richelle Mead
"Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes."
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"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
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"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
Christopher Morley
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
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"Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise."
Victor Hugo
"Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise."
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"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis."
Andrea Dworkin
"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis."
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"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."
Sallust
"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."
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"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."
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"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
Jacqueline Bisset
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
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"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
Gustave Courbet
"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking."
Christopher Meloni
"My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking."
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"The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing."
Vince Gill
"The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing."
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"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India."
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"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
Dale Carnegie
"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
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