Beauty Quotes and Sayings 12

BEAUTY QUOTES (12)

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

~Serge Gainsbourg

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

~Alanis Morissette

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

~Wallace Stevens

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

~Imelda Marcos

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

~Gene Tierney

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

~Shirley MacLaine

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

~Studs Terkel

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

~Auguste Renoir

It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?

~Hilary Swank

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

~Edward Gibbon

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.

~Eliza Farnham

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

~Michael Franti

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

~David Attenborough

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

~Cat Stevens

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

~Billie Joe Armstrong

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

~Baruch Spinoza

In art economy is always beauty.

~Henry James

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

~Marcel Duchamp

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

~Zooey Deschanel

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

~Imelda Marcos

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

~Arthur Erickson

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

~Lindsay Lohan

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

~John Milton

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

~Ani DiFranco

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

~Liam Neeson

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

~Robert Plant

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

~Hugh Jackman

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.

~George Bancroft

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

~Sallust

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

~Jerry Saltz

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

~Jerry Saltz

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

~Alanis Morissette

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

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

~John Zimmerman

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

~Annie Besant

Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.

~Annie Besant

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

~Emmanuelle Beart

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

~Shirley MacLaine

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

~Ben Okri

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

~Camille Paglia

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

~Jean Rostand

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

~David Allan Coe

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

~Dave Grohl

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

~Annie Dillard

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

~Jack London

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

~Thornton Wilder

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

~Tia Mowry

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

~Anna Quindlen

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