Beauty Quotes

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
– Thomas Kincade
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
– Donald Knuth
Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.
– Lil Wayne
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
– Van Morrison
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
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
– John Millington Synge
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
– Charles Baudelaire
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
– Saskya Pandita
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
– Vladimir Kramnik
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
– Deepak Chopra
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
– George Henry Lewes
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
– Chanakya
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
– Vera Farmiga
During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.
– Julia Roberts
Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
– Tia Carrere
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
– Mark Hyman
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
– Sydney Smith
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
– James Hillman
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
– Dave Reichert
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
– John Masefield
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
– Jacqueline Bisset
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
– Timothy Radcliffe
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
– Rabindranath Tagore
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
– Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
– Georg Brandes
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
– Lascelles Abercrombie
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
– Edward Witten
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
– James Nasmyth
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
– Roger Penrose
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
– Anne Boyd
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
– Lafcadio Hearn
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
– Martha Beck
Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
– LeRoy Neiman
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
– Mario Batali
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
– Christina Aguilera
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
– Delta Burke
Black beauty - he's a dark horse.
– Tim Vine
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
– Jeanne Moreau
Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.
– Zachary Levi
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
– Neil Gaiman
Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
– Eva Herzigova
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
– Leon Battista Alberti
Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
– Paulina Porizkova
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
– David Hume
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
– Florenz Ziegfeld
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
– Sara Teasdale
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
– Candice Bergen
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
– Gustave Courbet
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.
– Janice Dickinson
Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.
– James De La Vega
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
– George Jean Nathan
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
– Claude Debussy
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.
– Tia Carrere
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
– Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
– Emily Prager
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
– Paulo Coelho
Beauty is the lover's gift.
– William Congreve
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
– Luis Barragan
Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
– Joan Chen
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
– Godfrey Harold Hardy
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
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
– Socrates
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
– Alicia Machado
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
– Marcus V. Pollio
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
– Amanda Peet
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
– Richard Armour
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
– Jennifer Lopez
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
– Kinky Friedman
Beauty is less important than quality.
– Eugene Ormandy
Beauty is not everything!
– Chita Rivera
Beauty is not just physical.
– Halle Berry
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
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
– Lindsay Lohan
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
– Marianne Moore
Beauty is everything.
– Jorja Fox
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
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
– Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
– George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
– Socrates
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
– Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
– Jane Seymour
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
– Edmund Burke
Beauty is a fragile gift.
– Ovid
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
– Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
– Susie Orbach
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.
– Ann Curry
Beauty comes from the inside.
– Kathy Ireland
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?
– Jennifer Garner
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
– Dante Alighieri
Beauty can come in strange forms.
– James Dyson
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
– Felicity Huffman