Beauty Quotes and Sayings 5

BEAUTY QUOTES (5)

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

~Redd Foxx

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

~W. Somerset Maugham

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

~Francis Bacon

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

~Christopher Marlowe

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

~John Ruskin

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

~Samuel Butler

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

~Simone Weil

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

~Michelangelo

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

~Emile Zola

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

~Gwyneth Paltrow

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

~William Hazlitt

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

~William Penn

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

~Thomas Fuller

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

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

~Rose Kennedy

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

~James Russell Lowell

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

~Toni Morrison

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

~Richard Dawkins

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

~Michelangelo

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

~Charles Lamb

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

~Joseph Wood Krutch

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

~Richard P. Feynman

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

~Amy Grant

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

~Andre Gide

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

~Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

~Arthur Helps

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

~Angelina Jolie

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

~Lewis Mumford

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

~Mary Wollstonecraft

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

~Ruby Dee

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

~Virginia Woolf

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

~Jennifer Lopez

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

~E. M. Forster

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

~Maria Montessori

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

~Jane Austen

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

~Walter Hagen

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 architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

~Langston Hughes

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

~Mike Krzyzewski

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

~W. Somerset Maugham

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

~Martha Beck

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe. 

~Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart. 

~Nate Dircks

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.  But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. 

~Marie Stopes

Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. 

~Grey Livingston

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. 

~Pablo Picasso

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.  That's deep enough.  What do you want - an adorable pancreas? 

~Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines 

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