Beauty Quotes Quotes

"To love beauty is to see light."

"Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

"A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you."

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

"Beauty and folly are old companions."

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."

"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

"A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power."

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"Beauty has a lot to do with character."

"There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me."

"For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity."

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."

"A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

"Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

"Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."

"A women's greatest asset is her beauty."

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."

"Beauty is power a smile is its sword."

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."

"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."

"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."

"Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime."

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

"Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism."

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."

"Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that."

"Beauty is less important than quality."

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."

"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."

"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant."

"Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business."

"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."

"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."

"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."

"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."

"Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing."

"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."

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

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

"Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction."

"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self."

"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."

"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."

"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter."

"Integrity reveals beauty."

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

"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."

"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."

"Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home."

"How goodness heightens beauty!"

"Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more."

"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."

"Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress."

"I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions."

"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."

"I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt."

"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."

"O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!"

"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."

"I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool."

"Beauty is only skin deep."

"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."

"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

"Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good."

"It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty."

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

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

"The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides."

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."

"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

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

"Beauty without expression is boring."

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

"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."

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

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

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."

"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

"Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity."

"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."

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

"The perception of beauty is a moral test."

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

"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."

"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."

"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it."

"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."

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."

"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."

"I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty."

"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."

"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?"

"Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body."

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."

"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain."

"Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you."

"I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit."

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."

"The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate."

"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."

"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"

"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."

"The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality."

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."

"Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."

"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."

"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."

"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."

"Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."

"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes."

"A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant."

"Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty."

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

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

"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits."

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

"When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine."

"Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."

"I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."

"In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self."

"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."

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman."

"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."

"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."

"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."

"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."

"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."

"That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me."

"Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit."

"When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it."

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."

"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick."

"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."

"To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty."

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"

"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."

"The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."

"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."

"Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity."

"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."

"An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion."

"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

"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."

"A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest."

"Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition."

"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton."

"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."

"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."

"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

"I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect."

"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."

"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."

"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this."

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

"I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside."

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."