Beauty Quotes
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Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
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Beauty is less important than quality.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.
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The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.
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I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
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Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
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Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
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For day-to-day beauty, I'm a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips - they're a great fix for any makeup emergencies.
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I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.
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Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
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If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.
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And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.
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Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
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What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
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Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
