Beauty Quotes

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.
– Mike Judge
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
– Leonard Maltin
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
– Gustav Mahler
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.
– Marilyn Monroe
Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.
– Mstislav Rostropovich
Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
– Andrea Jung
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
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
– Honore de Balzac
Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.
– Paz Vega
As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
– Rachel Weisz
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
– W. H. Davies
As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
– Idina Menzel
As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?
– Ellen Page
As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
– Angela Kinsey
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
– Theophile Gautier
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
– Lisa See
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
– Joan Collins
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
– Christo
And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.
– Erika Slezak
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
– Charles Baudelaire
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
– Nikolai Gogol
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
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
– Christopher Morley
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
– Henry David Thoreau
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
– Eartha Kitt
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
After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.
– James Wolcott
After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.
– Busy Philipps
Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.
– Rashida Jones
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
– Christopher Lambert
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
– David Hume
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
– Jerry Saltz
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
– Richard Le Gallienne
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
– George Meredith
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
– Oliver Stone
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 supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.
– Kim Alexis
A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
– Clarence Stein
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
– William C. Bryant
A representative is free delivery she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.
– Andrea Jung
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
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
– Paul D. Boyer
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
– Stephen King
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
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
– Diane Kruger
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
– Jean Ingelow
A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.
– Khloe Kardashian
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
– Rudolf Otto
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
– Andrew Weil
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him.
– Ansel Adams
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
– Maya Angelou
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
– Hannah Arendt
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.
– Aristotle
You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
– W. H. Auden
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
– Saint Augustine
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
– Saint Augustine
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
– James Randolph Adams
At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. This was revolutionary. Here were entire stalls of candy, naked as the day they were born, piled up two feet high and God knows how deep. What it was beauty.
– Steve Almond
My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making.
– Beth Anderson
The idea that beauty is revolutionary is a revelation to me... I've discovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, can't add, can't work from verbalized concepts, but that does make melodies with pitch and rhythm... beauty is enough.
– Beth Anderson
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
– James A. Baldwin
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
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
– Charles Baudelaire
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
– Walter Benjamin
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
– Ambrose Bierce
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
– Ambrose Bierce
Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!
– Robert Blair
When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.
– Robert Bridges
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
– Robert Bridges
Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show, Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.
– Robert Bridges
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
– Edmund Burke
Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.
– Michelangelo
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
– Michelangelo
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, that breathes on earth the air of paradise.
– Michelangelo
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty - if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
– George Balanchine
Beauty and grace command the world.
– Park Benjamin
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
– Benjamin Britten
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.
– William Allen Butler
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
– Martin Buxbaum
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
– Albert Camus
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
– Charlie Chaplin
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning.
– Lydia M. Child
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
– Barbara Colorose
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
– Alex Comfort
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
– Samuel Daniel
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
– Johnny Depp
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
– Emily Dickinson
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
– Annie Dillard
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
– Bob Dylan
Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.
– Bertha Damon
Appreciation, gratitude, affection-these are the qualities Parisians bestow on their parks. Beauty, serenity, tranquillity, majesty-these are the rewards they reap in return.
– Landt Dennis
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
– Marcel Duchamp
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
– Ronald Duncan
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun.
– Jonathan Edwards
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
– Albert Einstein