Beauty Quotes
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
John Ruskin
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When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.
Miranda July
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Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
Jamie Lee Curtis
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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
Marianne Williamson
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To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.
Alexandre Dumas
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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
Aristotle
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But I don’t think anyone should have the right to crush happiness or beauty when they see it.
Olivier Dahan
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We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.
Ernest Everett Just
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Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNabb
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
Elsie de Wolfe
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True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
Audrey Hepburn
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
Michelangelo
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
Stephen Sondheim
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People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the future. But we have that beauty today, too, in the mixture of past and future. We have to save it today and we have to enjoy it today.
Burhan Sonmez
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Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
Homer
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Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
Charlotte Bronte
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Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
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Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.
Norm MacDonald
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Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make wilderness not a battlefield but a revelation.
T. H. Watkins
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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
Confucius
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True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.
Carolyn Mahaney
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The beauty, the spirit of Germany, its sun, moon, stars, rocks, seas and rivers can never be expressed this way..
Caspar David Friedrich
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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
Robert Frost