Beauty Quotes

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

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

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

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

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

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.

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.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

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.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

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.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

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

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Exuberance is beauty.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

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.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

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.

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

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.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

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

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

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

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

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

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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

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.

Beauty without expression is boring.

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.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.