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Monday 2 December 2013

Beauty Quotes and Sayings 8

BEAUTY QUOTES (8)



Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
~Hans Urs von Balthasar

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
~Joan Rivers

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
~Joseph Addison

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
~Bryant H. McGill

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
~Samuel Johnson

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
~Georgia O'Keeffe

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
~Eartha Kitt

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
~Rashida Jones

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
~Vivien Leigh

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
~Vladimir Kramnik

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
~Dimebag Darrell

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
~Dennis Prager

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
~Andre Gide

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
~Kevyn Aucoin

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
~George Gissing

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
~Joseph Joubert

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
~D. H. Lawrence

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
~Tom Stoppard

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.
~Shaun White

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
~David Hockney

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
~Imelda Marcos

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
~Shinichi Suzuki

Beauty is the lover's gift.
~William Congreve

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
~William Congreve

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
~Barbara Corcoran

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
~Baltasar Gracian

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
~Jean Paul

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~Xenophon

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
~Phil Ochs

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
~Robert Browning

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
~Tyra Banks

The key to education is the experience of beauty.
~Friedrich Schiller

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
~Charles Baudelaire

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
~Washington Irving

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
~Peggy Fleming

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

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

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
~Kevyn Aucoin

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
~Roy Ayers

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
~Jennifer Aniston

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