BEAUTY QUOTES

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
  ~ John Donne ~
• To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Don't look at the length of the flooding river, but the beauty of the shore.
  ~ Gabriel T. Saah ~
• The environmentalist sees the beauty in the standing trees and others in the well-furnished furniture.
  ~ Norbu Dorji ~
• Beauty is not just about good things you see, but strange things you do to make it look beautiful.
  ~ Norbu Dorji ~
• Sometimes the past is like the snow falling from the blue skies. If you are cold, hopeless, and unforgiving. The snow will never melt away it will continue building and covering all the beauty in your life. Contrastingly if you are warm and kind and have a beautiful light glowing all around you. All the snow will melt away leaving plenty of room for true love mmmmmmmmmm ya.
  ~ Francesca Etheart ~
• Poetry is one of the genres of literature that is skilfully written in lines and stanzas, usually spiced with figurative languages to give it an aesthetic beauty. It expresses thoughts and feelings recollected in tranquility.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• Even in art, there's a limit to beauty. For when beauty's gone beyond beauty, there may be a problem. Guess that's why the English-tongue never say, "beautifiest".
  ~ Muhammad Awwal Zakari Brainbox ~
• Don't waste your time trying to fit in because at the end of the day there's nothing beautiful about being someone else. Always remember that one day someone is going to notice the beauty of being You.
  ~ Monalisa Liabunya ~
• Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun.
  ~ Thomas Campbell ~
• When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well
  ~ John Milton ~
• What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
  ~ John Keats ~
• What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
  ~ John Keats ~
• We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
  ~ Sir Walter Raleigh ~
• Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
  ~ Sir Walter Raleigh ~
• Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
  ~ Ovid ~
• If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
  ~ Louise Bogan ~
• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy
  ~ Louise Bogan ~
• 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 them.
  ~ Louisa May Alcott ~
• Far away 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.
  ~ Louisa May Alcott ~
• Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
  ~ Sara Teasdale ~
• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Our lives are going to sleep well and sweet dreams but no one is imagining their beauty of dreams.
  ~ Mohammed Arshad Amin ~
• I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.
  ~ Lauren Conrad ~
• And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• Well I've written four beauty books as well.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
  ~ Don Delillo ~
• With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
  ~ Mos Def ~
• 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.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
  ~ 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.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Power and beauty come from a very deep place.
  ~ Brooke Burke ~
• Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
  ~ Tyra Banks ~
• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee ~
• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee ~
• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
  ~ Douglas Horton ~
• After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• In art economy is always beauty.
  ~ Henry James ~
• 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.
  ~ Henry James ~
• 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.
  ~ Henry James ~
• I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
  ~ Marc Jacobs ~
• When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
  ~ Christy Turlington ~
• I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
  ~ Christy Turlington ~
• The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• A representative is free delivery she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
  ~ Roberto Cavalli ~
• I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
  ~ Roberto Cavalli ~
• Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• 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.
  ~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~
• 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 ~
• 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.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• 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.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
  ~ Stephen Fry ~