99 Quotes on Beauty

1.  Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. Margaret Cho
2. I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. Mary MacLane
3. 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
4. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. Jacqueline Bisset
5. And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure. William Allen Butler
6. The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. Chanakya
7. I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts. Olivia Colman
8. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. Moses Mendelssohn
9. When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place. Annie Lennox
10. Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.  It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. Wilde, Oscar
11. I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on. Nina Dobrev
12. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Shakespeare, William
13. I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair. Dita Von Teese
14. 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
15. Hold fast to youth and beauty. Elizabeth Arden
16. People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. Candice Bergen
17. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty. Fritz Todt
18. What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? Julie Burchill
19. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley
20. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates
21. Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. Horace
22. Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty. Chrisette Michele
23. Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. Lew Wallace
24. I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters. Sophie Thompson
25. It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. Robert Plant
26. Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. Loren, Sophia
27. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Tolstoy, Leo
28. The key to education is the experience of beauty. Friedrich Schiller
29. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Khalil Gibran
30. The beauty of the past belongs to the past. Margaret Bourke-White
31. Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. Robert Bridges
32. I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough. Roberto Cavalli
33. I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. Mark Burnett
34. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. Bob Dylan
35. Physical beauty is such a strange thing. Jock Sturges
36. When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. Gregory I
37. Beauty and folly are old companions. Franklin, Benjamin
38. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. Godfrey Harold Hardy
39. The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. Sydney J. Harris
40. ...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.  Barrie, James Matthew
41. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. Craig Ferguson
42. Beauty is only skin deep, but it's avaluable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. Hubbard, Kin
43. 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
44. There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire
45. I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into. Dita Von Teese
46. I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet
47. 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
48. I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity. Margaret Cho
49. It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? Robin Wright Penn
50. I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.' Selma Blair
51. For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. Matthew Prior
52. My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie. Ashley Benson
53. It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people. Anthony Kiedis
54. The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Woolf, Virginia
55. I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. Ella R. Bloor
56. Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. Richard Cecil
57. My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer. Rachel Bilson
58. You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. Guglielmo Marconi
59. 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
60. 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
61. I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true. Gwyneth Paltrow
62. The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found. Joan Rivers
63. What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. Lisa Bonet
64. The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. Havelock Ellis
65. It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have. Duchess of Windsor
66. Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. Kristin Scott Thomas
67. 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
68. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. Chaim Potok
69. No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. Jean Toomer
70. Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. John Masefield
71. Beauty has a lot to do with character. Kevyn Aucoin
72. Beauty attracts us men;  but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. Richter, Jean Paul
73. Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different. Miranda Kerr
74. When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. Natalia Vodianova
75. Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Paul Gauguin
76. The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. Roy Ayers
77. Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. Jonathan Sacks
78. And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world. Christo
79. The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Browning, Elizabeth B.
80. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Bacon, Francis
81. Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. Miuccia Prada
82. Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. Leslie Jamison
83. Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. Wilhelm von Humboldt
84. I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. Alexander McQueen
85. The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here. Mike Weir
86. What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
87. Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush. Bacon, Francis
88. I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you. Joan Blondell
89. Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. Wallace Stevens
90. In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. Christopher Wren
91. My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is. Bar Refaeli
92. 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
93. I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night. Mariel Hemingway
94. We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up. Jenifer Lewis
95. I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world. Diane Kruger
96. He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. John Galsworthy
97. When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place. Yusef Lateef
98. If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist! Beyonce Knowles
99. I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips. Kim Novak