Beauty Quotes
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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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Because of something told under the famished horn
Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,
To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,
Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
William Butler Yeats
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Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.
Eleonora Duse
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Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Meshell Ndegeocello
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
Victor Hugo
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Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness and a disturbed countenance. She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her.
Carolyn Mahaney
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It's like with any art, there's always something new to develope, new colours, deepness, awareness, beauty. Each generation has new fields to develope, to work out, making life itself into art.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
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Without her glasses Vivian did look a little frightening. She had tight sinewy strappy muscles and a face that was hardened and almost brutal - a face that might have been chiseled by a sculptor who had fallen out of love with the idea of beauty.
Brian Morton
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What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?
Lao Tzu
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The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
Alan Hollinghurst
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.
Emil Cioran