Beauty Quotes

Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy.

As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with ugliness as its negative counterpart.

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Beauty Quotes and Sayings

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank


Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

― Markus Zusak


Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

― Marcus Aurelius


All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe


Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

― William Goldman


Beauty awakens the soul to act.

― Dante Alighieri


Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

― John Ray


A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

― Coco Chanel


Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

― Thomas Mann


A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

― Helena Christensen


Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

― Rabindranath Tagore


It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy


There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

― Steve Maraboli


Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

― Amy Bloom


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

― John Joseph Powell


If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

― Anatole France


Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

― Virgil


Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.

― Kate Angell


What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

― Scott Westerfeld


Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Voltaire


As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

― Pablo Neruda


If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

― Dan Fogler


Summer afternoon, summer afternoon: to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

― Henry James


A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

― John Keats


There is no exquisite beauty... without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe


To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

― Osho


People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.

― Jay Kristoff


The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. - Audrey Hepburn

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka


There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Abraham Lincoln


Beauty is the promise of happiness.

― Edmund Burke


Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

― Dorothy Parker


Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss, but every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and once you do, nothing will ever compare.

― Wendelin Van Draanen


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

― Kahlil Gibran


The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius


She walks in beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

― Lord Byron


There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

― Maria Mitchell


Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

― Oscar Wilde


Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

― Edgar Allan Poe


Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

― Rachel Carson


Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

― Aristotle


I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

― Anne Frank


Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. - Coco Chanel

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

― Coco Chanel


Our task must be to free ourselves.... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

― Albert Einstein


Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

― Nicole Krauss


Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

― Juvenal


I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

― Virginia Woolf


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

― David Hume


Why do beautiful songs make you sad? 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

― Jonathan Safran Foer


I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

― Drew Barrymore


Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.

― Amit Ray


You're beautiful, like a May fly.

― Ernest Hemingway


A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

― Scott Westerfeld


Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

― John Steinbeck


Beauty is whatever gives joy.

― Edna St. Vincent Millay


Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

― Eleanor Roosevelt


The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

― Louisa May Alcott


Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

― Yukio Mishima


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

― Helen Keller


Beauty is a fragile gift.

― Ovid


The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

― Lao Tzu


Beauty will save the world.

― Fyodor Dostoevsky


Taught from their 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


In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

― Oscar Wilde


You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

― Elizabeth Gilbert


Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

― David Hume


Integrity reveals beauty.

― Thomas Leonard


A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement

― Jess C Scott


For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

― Rainer Maria Rilke


Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates. - Kate Angell

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

― Alexander McQueen


Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

― Richard Rodgers


And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.

― Kristen Ashley


Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

― Priscilla Presley


I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. 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


The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

― Edgar Allan Poe


There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

― Mandy Hale


Outer beauty pleases the eye. Inner beauty captivates the heart.

― Mandy Hale


Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

― Munshi Premchand


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


Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

― Alex Flinn


The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

― Francis Bacon


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

― Jane Austen


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


A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

― John Keats


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

― Yukio Mishima


Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

― Judy Sheindlin


A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

― Sarah J. Maas


You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

― Justina Chen


The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

― Havelock Ellis


Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

― Frederick Buechner


And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

― Ruskin Bond


The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.

― Friedrich Nietzsche


The better you look, the more you see.

― Bret Easton Ellis


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.

― Kahlil Gibran


Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

― Clara Schumann


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

― Kahlil Gibran


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

― Gwyneth Paltrow


It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

― Maggie Stiefvater


Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

― Andre Breton


I think there is beauty in everything. What normal people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. - Alexander McQueen

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

― Groucho Marx


Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

― Marcel Proust


It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

― Maya Angelou


The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

― Thich Nhat Hanh


It's like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

― Paul Erdos


Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

― Laurence J. Peter


A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

― Thomas More


Beauty is not caused. It is.

― Emily Dickinson


To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

― Victoria Moran


In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

― Edgar Allan Poe


The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

― Audrey Hepburn


It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

― Chuck Palahniuk


There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

― Stendhal


For she had eyes and chose me.

― William Shakespeare


People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore.

― Alex Flinn


Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

― Saint Augustine


When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

― John Lennon


Happy girls are the prettiest.

― Audrey Hepburn


It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

― Anne Bronte


To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

― Aberjhani


Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

― Laetitia Casta


The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


The beauty of the world.... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

― Virginia Woolf


Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

― Margaret Cho


Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

― Amit Ray


There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

― Conrad Hall


But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

― oscar wilde


She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty.... but at the same time very deep, very smart.

― Johnny Depp


The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

― Kahlil Gibran


Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens - but maybe if it's how you see them,that's how they really are. It's like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.

― Jenny Han


People always get used to beauty, though. I haven't gotten used to you just yet.

― John Green


Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

― Socrates


The beautiful is always bizarre.

― Charles Baudelaire


Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

― Amit Ray


Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage and bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.

― C. JoyBell C.


Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

― Charles Lamb


Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

― Vladimir Nabokov


Things are beautiful if you love them.

― Jean Anouilh


The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

― Emily St. John Mandel


You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

― John Green


Beauty surrounds us.

― Rumi


Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

― Sophia Loren


Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

― Kahlil Gibran


A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

― Alex Comfort


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


There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

― Katerina Stoykova Klemer


The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion.... open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

― Orhan Pamuk


There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

― E. Nesbit


Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

― Germaine Greer


When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

― Akhenaton


Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

― John Keats


Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

― Charles Baudelaire


I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

― Charles Bukowski


I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.

― Ocean Vuong


When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

― Drew Barrymore


Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

― H. G. Wells


I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.

― Marguerite Duras


The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

― Carl Sagan


All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

― Leo Tolstoy


Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

― Anne Roiphe


Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

― John Keats


Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

― Yogananda


The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

― Wallace Stevens


We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

― Jawaharlal Nehru


She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

― Naomi Wolf


I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

― Ani DiFranco


You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

― Alain de Botton


The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

― Albert Einstein


Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

― Amit Ray


The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

― Joseph B. Wirthlin


Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

― Ashley Smith


Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

― Naomi Wolf


People are more than just the way they look.

― Madeleine L'Engle


I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms.

― John Geddes


The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.

― Sophia Nam


It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

― Hosea Ballou


We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

― Rachel Hartman


They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful.

― Shannon L. Alder


Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

― Toni Morrison


I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

― Ann Voskamp


Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

― Aldous Huxley


The heads of strong old age are beautiful Beyond all grace of youth

― Robinson Jeffers


If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

― Mary Wollstonecraft


She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

― F. Scott Fitzgerald


There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

― Liv Tyler


There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

― Michael Cunningham


Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

― Oscar Wilde


I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

― William Butler Yeats


Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

― Andy Warhol


When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

― Lao Tzu


Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.

― John Muir


Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity.

― Miguel Cervantes


A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

― George Meredith


Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

― Haruki Murakami


If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

― Benjamin Franklin


To love beauty is to see light.

― Victor Hugo


Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.

― Mark Oliver Everett


Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful.

― S.L. Jennings


Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

― W. Somerset Maugham


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


Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

― Sara Teasdale


A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


The perception of beauty is a moral test.

― Henry David Thoreau


Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

― Francis Bacon


Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

― Franz Kafka


Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Beauty and folly are old companions.

― Benjamin Franklin


Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

― David Byrne


Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

― Dante Alighieri


I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

― Christy Turlington


The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

― Albert Einstein


Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

― William Blake


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


Beauty ain't always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, 'Damn.'

― Prodigy


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


Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

― Ivana Trump


Beauty is only skin deep.

― Thomas Overbury


Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

― Paulo Coelho


Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

― Marilyn Monroe


The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

― Chanakya


Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

― Fay Weldon


You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

― Anouk Aimee


Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

― Victor Hugo


Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

― Jean Anouilh


Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

― Albert Einstein


Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.

― Sheherazade Goldsmith


Beauty has a lot to do with character.

― Kevyn Aucoin


Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

― George Jean Nathan


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

― Mike Krzyzewski


In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

― Jonas Mekas


The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

― Auguste Renoir


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


Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.

― Raheem DeVaughn


The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

― Pablo Neruda


The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

― Elon Musk


The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

― Eleanor Roosevelt


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


Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

― Sophia Loren


My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

― Hedy Lamarr


I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

― Plautus


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


It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

― Victoria Justice


Exuberance is beauty.

― William Blake


Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

― Rumi


The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.

― Maryam Mirzakhani


Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.

― Park Shin-hye


The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.

― Andreja Pejic


For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

― Edwin Way Teale


Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

― G. H. Hardy


Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

― Maria Montessori


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


Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

― Alicia Machado


As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

― Annie Dillard


I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

― Kate Forsyth


Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

― Galileo Galilei


It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

― Phyllis Diller


People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

― Imelda Marcos


There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

― Celine Dion


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


Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.

― Billy Ocean


I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

― Jack London


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

― Phil Ochs


There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

― John Erskine


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


To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you're naturally yourself, you're beautiful.

― Young M.A


Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

― Victor Hugo


A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

― Jacqueline Bisset


People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

― Salma Hayek


Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

― Oscar Wilde


Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

― Edmund Burke


The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

― Alexis Carrel


I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

― Bob Dylan


You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

― Tadao Ando


When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

― Bernard Berenson


Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

― Mahmoud Darwish


For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

― Hunter S. Thompson


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

― Christopher Marlowe


Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

― John Greenleaf Whittier


Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

― Louis Kahn


Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

― Zoe Kravitz


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

― Eartha Kitt


I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

― Georgia O'Keeffe


Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

― Alfred de Vigny


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

― David Hockney


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


Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

― Christian Dior


Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

― Milan Kundera


Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

― Thomas Kinkade


The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

― Paul Washer


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


I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

― Marc Jacobs


When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

― Thich Nhat Hanh


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

― Oliver Platt


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

― Amy Grant


The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

― Homaro Cantu


Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

― Marcus Aurelius


Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

― Langston Hughes


Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

― Junichiro Tanizaki


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


Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

― Zoe Foster Blake


My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!

― Bianca Balti


I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.

― Catriona Gray


Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

― Adlai Stevenson I


Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

― Henry Rollins


To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

― Eleanor Catton


My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.

― Stella Maxwell


Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

― Thomas Nashe


Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

― Monica Bellucci


Well, to be frank I like natural beauty. Not artificial.

― Abhinav Shukla


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 Stevenson I


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


Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

― Serge Gainsbourg


The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

― Salvador Dali


Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

― D. H. Lawrence


It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

― Abraham Maslow


True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

― Aimee Mullins


Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

― Douglas Horton


It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

― Keri Russell


Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what's most beautiful about you and to hide what's less beautiful.

― Sonia Rykiel


Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

― Pablo Picasso


People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

― Mstislav Rostropovich


Mascara can definitely be one of the hardest parts of the beauty routine. Nothing is worse than when you are applying your mascara, and you've worked an hour on the most flawless blended eye shadow, and with one slip of the finger, your mascara is all over your face.

― James Charles


All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

― Michael Franti


If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

― Conor Oberst


Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.

― Alessia Cara


Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

― Gian Carlo Menotti


I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to be at a beauty pageant at least once in life.

― Manushi Chhillar


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


Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

― Christian Louboutin


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, 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


Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

― Michelle Phan


Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

― St. Jerome


Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

― Devon Aoki


If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

― Anne Lamott


Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

― Pamela Anderson


Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

― Joyce Meyer


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

― Jennifer Lopez


It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

― Robert Louis Stevenson


Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

― Marcus Tullius Cicero


Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

― Ann Curry


Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what's important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.

― Lara Dutta


Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

― Cindy Margolis


When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

― Mahatma Gandhi


Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

― Fyodor Dostoevsky


I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

― Celine Dion


It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

― Emily Procter


Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

― James Caan


Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

― John Donne


How goodness heightens beauty!

― Milan Kundera


There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

― James Salter


Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

― John Muir


There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

― Wynter Gordon


I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

― Ariana Grande


We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

― Mary McDonnell


I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

― Amelia Earhart


Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

― Jenn Proske


Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

― Kinky Friedman


Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

― Alessandro Michele


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


Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

― Ron Ben-Israel


Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

― Donald Knuth


Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

― Kiesza


I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

― Lorraine Hansberry


I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

― Boris Pasternak


Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

― Stewart Udall


Having curry for breakfast is a thing of beauty.

― Romesh Ranganathan


Form follows beauty.

― Oscar Niemeyer


Happy Skin is all about natural beauty. They don't want you to wear something that's harsh on your skin and I want that as well.

― Heart Evangelista


My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

― Nick Cave


Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

― Daniel Burnham


Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

― Edward Steichen


The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

― Shonda Rhimes


Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

― Madhuri Dixit


Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

― Marianne Moore


We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

― Ellsworth Huntington


You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

― Jennifer Aniston


By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

― Hannah Arendt


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


I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

― Miuccia Prada


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


Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

― Jane Seymour


'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

― Will Hobbs


Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

― George Matthew Adams


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


I think the most powerful beauty is representative of uniqueness and individuality of every person.

― Nikita Dragun


Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

― Rupi Kaur


I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

― Jean Paul Gaultier


The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

― Walt Whitman


There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

― Gustav Stickley


Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

― L. Wolfe Gilbert


Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

― Joanne Woodward


We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

― Gilbert Baker


Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

― Petrarch


The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.

― Jwala Gutta


When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

― R. Buckminster Fuller


Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

― Laurette Taylor


I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

― Steve Gleason


It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

― David Allan Coe


Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

― Christopher Marlowe


I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

― Whitney Houston


O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

― Bryan Procter


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


The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

― Malcolm de Chazal


Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

― Chanakya


Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.

― Iman


As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

― Kaitlyn Bristowe


I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

― Sonam Kapoor


Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

― Christopher McCandless


Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

― Gloria Steinem


We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

― Carre Otis


I find beauty in imperfection.

― Rachel Morrison


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

― Ruby Dee


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


Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

― Henry Drummond


There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.

― Mac Miller


Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

― Robert Motherwell


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

― Redd Foxx


We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

― Beyonce Knowles


As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

― Arthur Cayley


The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

― J. Paul Getty


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


Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

― Theophile Gautier


Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.

― Nikki Sixx


I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.

― Santiago Calatrava


Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

― Dolores del Rio


'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

― Richard Chamberlain


Beauty, The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

― Ambrose Bierce


If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

― Lily Tomlin


I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

― Roberto Benigni


A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

― Gaston Bachelard


I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

― Joan Crawford


No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

― Oscar Wilde


There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

― Lisa Joy


'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

― John Keats


Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

― Andre Breton


Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

― Queen Latifah


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.

― Vitruvius


Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.

― Myles Munroe


What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

― Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Sunscreen, in the world of beauty, is the ultimate in adulting.

― Emily Weiss


Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

― Louisa May Alcott


Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

― George William Russell


Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

― John Eldredge


The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

― Ally Condie


The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

― Conan O'Brien


My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

― Emily Mortimer


Beauty without expression is boring.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

― Blaise Pascal


Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

― Loretta Young


A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

― Buddha


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

― Roy Ayers


Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

― Friedrich Schiller


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


So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

― Alexander the Great


You have to embrace your body, whether it's curvy or whatever you may be. You have to embrace who you are. Beauty comes from the inside not out.

― Cheryl Burke


I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.

― Peter Lindbergh


I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!

― Liya Kebede


Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

― Robert Mapplethorpe


I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

― Ossie Davis


I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

― Gerard Butler


A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

― Aldo Leopold


I had daydreamed through many performances of Swan Lake, thinking the dancing tutus only ever conveyed one aspect of swans: their beauty gliding on water. I wondered what it would be like to use male dancers and bring out swans' aggressive, muscular side.

― Matthew Bourne


When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

― Agnes Martin


Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

― Jiddu Krishnamurti


We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

― Christo


I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

― James Dean


In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

― Homer


Flowers.... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

― Shannon Tweed


Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

― Orison Swett Marden


Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

― Pope Paul VI


The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

― Gordon Gee


The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

― Kehinde Wiley


I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

― Flume


There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

― John Kenneth Galbraith


I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

― Saul Leiter


Coming from a pageant title that celebrates diversity, I've come to appreciate all kinds of beauty.

― Pia Wurtzbach


Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.

― Menachem Begin


I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.

― Tracee Ellis Ross


He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

― Moshe Safdie


There is beauty and humility in imperfection.

― Guillermo del Toro


Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

― Candice Bergen


Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.

― Rozonda Thomas


It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

― David Attenborough


When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

― Miranda Kerr


Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

― Marston Morse


Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

― Karen Salmansohn


True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

― Alek Wek


Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

― Halle Berry


I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.

― Liz Cheney


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


For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

― Thomas Mann


San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

― Rudyard Kipling


What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

― Loretta Young


The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

― Carlos Slim


She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

― Christina Rossetti


From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.

― Alvin Ailey


I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.

― Francois Nars


My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy.

― Robert Baden-Powell


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

― Walter Hagen


That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.

― Sanam Saeed


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


It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

― Euripides


I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

― Charles Baudelaire


A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty.

― Kyle Hill


I like creating beauty out of scary things.

― Grimes


In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

― Seamus Heaney


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


Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

― John Ruskin


To me, 'sexy' is a kind of beauty, a kind of self-expression, one that is to be celebrated.

― Emily Ratajkowski


I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

― Marie Curie


The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

― Katherine Anne Porter


No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

― Shanina Shaik


Sunscreen is my number one beauty product that goes on even when I am indoors.

― Liz Goldwyn


There's beauty in imperfection.

― Kirti Kulhari


Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

― Michelle Yeoh


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


I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

― Joy Harjo


I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

― Dolly Parton


I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

― Tia Mowry


Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

― Luis Barragan


You are a human being and are allowed to be imperfect, and you are allowed to be flawed. There is a lot of beauty in your imperfections, in your uniqueness.

― Ileana D'Cruz


Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

― George Henry Lewes


You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.

― Kate Moss


Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

― Lew Wallace


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


You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'

― Joe Carnahan


I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

― Katrina Kaif


There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

― H. R. Giger


I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

― Courtney Love


What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

― Joseph Brodsky


Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

― Oscar Wilde


I truly believe diversity is beauty.

― Halima Aden


I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

― Miley Cyrus


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


I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

― John Muir


People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

― Mattie Stepanek


I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

― Roberto Cavalli


Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

― Tim Vine


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


The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

― Vik Muniz


Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

― Rumi


Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

― Thomas Jefferson


My ideal woman would be someone with both beauty and intelligence. Someone who can hold her own in a conversation, gets along with my family and respects elders, loves children, and have a sense of humour as whacky as mine.

― Karan Patel


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.

― Constantin Stanislavski


You really don't need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature.

― Erin Heatherton


I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

― Jean Genet


The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

― John Constable


I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

― Alexander McQueen


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


Beauty is not everything!

― Chita Rivera


Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

― Sappho


Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

― Adriana Lima


We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

― Donella Meadows


'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

― Naomi Wolf


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


When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

― Christy Turlington


I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

― Janelle Monae


Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

― Louie Schwartzberg


There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

― Sarah McLachlan


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


I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

― Marina and the Diamonds


The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

― Benjamin N. Cardozo


The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

― Margaret Bourke-White


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

― Thomas Fuller


The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

― James Baldwin


Beauty is what I believe in. I want to act and make decisions based on what I believe.

― Nayeon


The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

― Joan Rivers


Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn't it? It's in your soul; you can't strap it on.

― Sarah Parish


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


There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

― Oscar Wilde


Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

― Gene Tierney


Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

― Liv Tyler


Love is the beauty of the soul.

― Saint Augustine


The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

― Tom Ford


Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

― Gwyneth Paltrow


We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

― Patricia Sun


I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

― Iman


An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

― Christian de Portzamparc


I like a girl with natural beauty.

― Chandler Parsons


The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

― Hugh Hefner


Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.

― Park Bo-young


Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

― Walter Scott


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


Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

― Harold Ramis


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


Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.

― Monica Bellucci


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


The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

― George Sand


I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

― Wole Soyinka


Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

― Jeb Bush


Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

― Patrick Demarchelier


Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

― L'Wren Scott


When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

― Kurt Vonnegut


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

― Kevyn Aucoin


Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

― Paul Klee


Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

― Ani DiFranco


Live life and enjoy it. That's the real key to beauty!

― Michelle Visage


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


The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

― Dorothea Dix


Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

― Marcus du Sautoy


I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

― Cote de Pablo


Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

― Donald Norman


Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

― Philip Roth


Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

― Piet Mondrian


Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

― Hussein of Jordan


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


A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

― William Cullen Bryant


For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

― Liam Neeson


Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

― Dale Archer


If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.

― Elie Wiesel


The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

― John Piper


I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.

― Alex Honnold


Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

― Max Roach


Ecstasy and beauty are eternal.

― Julie Newmar


Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

― Kahlil Gibran


We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

― Ishmael Beah


Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

― Hans Urs von Balthasar


I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.

― Halsey


I am a thing of beauty.

― Frank Sinatra


I once saw a TikTok beauty hack about taking a hot bowl of water and using it to steam your face. I tried it, and it feels so good.

― Charli D'Amelio


Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

― Richard Dawkins


There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

― Guillermo del Toro


I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

― Aasif Mandvi


By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

― Rabindranath Tagore


Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

― Rosalind Russell


The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

― Audrey Hepburn


The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

― Alberto Korda


Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

― Gutzon Borglum


Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

― Wallace Stevens


There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

― Charles Baudelaire


The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

― Richard Le Gallienne


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


I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

― Alexander Alekhine


No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

― Albrecht Durer


Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

― Camille Paglia


I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

― Elliott Erwitt


What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

― Victor Hugo


Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

― Franz Kafka


To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.

― Prabal Gurung


We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.

― Joshua Bell


And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

― James Beattie


An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

― Yann Arthus-Bertrand


I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.

― Morten Harket


I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

― Valentino Garavani


We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.

― David Hogg


A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes.

― Jonathan Miles


When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

― John Muir


In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

― Pico Iyer


In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

― Samuel Ullman


Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

― Simone Weil


I think true love - love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

― Rakesh Jhunjhunwala


Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

― Doris Day


I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.

― Yuna


Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don't care what they say - every girl, every woman, wants to feel pretty and empowered and beautiful, within their own definition of beautiful. I love fashion, I love shopping, but I love beauty more because I love the science of it.

― Eva Chen


The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.

― Gloria Reuben


What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

― Gertrude Jekyll


The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

― Said Nursi


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


There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

― Alessandro Michele


This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

― Sharon Stone


The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.

― Jerry Lewis


The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

― Northrop Frye


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


I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

― Esha Gupta


Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

― John Milton


What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

― John Keats


Alabama is a land of bountiful natural beauty, and our state and local trails are a means to experience and enjoy that outdoor splendor.

― Kay Ivey


There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

― Dieter F. Uchtdorf


Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

― Margaret Cho


The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!

― Meagan Good


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

― Francis Bacon


Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

― Camille Paglia


In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

― Christopher Morley


The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

― William Wordsworth


What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

― Hu Shih


Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

― Eli Broad


When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

― Connor Franta


I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

― Jack Kerouac


The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

― Sallust


Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

― Jenkin Lloyd Jones


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


If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

― Kelly Rowland


I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

― Marc Jacobs


The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

― Hanya Yanagihara


We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.

― Tyra Banks


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


Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

― Ouida


Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.

― Jonathan Van Ness


What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

― Sarah Bernhardt


A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

― Jean Ingelow


To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one's confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!

― Lisa


I think confidence is a true form of beauty.

― Becky G


He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

― John Burroughs


When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.

― Kerry James Marshall


Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

― Elizabeth Peyton


For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

― Vladimir Kramnik


It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

― Paul Dirac


Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

― James Hillman


Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

― Ellen Hopkins


Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

― Edward Gibbon


My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

― Tina Turner


Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

― Socrates


In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

― Hunter Schafer


Even though my label is that of a beauty queen, I'm not going to limit myself to that, just because that's my title.

― Catriona Gray


I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

― Philip Johnson


If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers.

― George Harrison


Beauty is subjective, so people's opinions don't really matter.

― Zozibini Tunzi


People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

― Richard Avedon


Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

― Nikos Kazantzakis


Beauty is less important than quality.

― Eugene Ormandy


A horse is a thing of beauty.... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

― Xenophon


I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

― Nawal El Saadawi


Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

― E. M. Forster


The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

― Anne Hathaway


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


There is beauty in everything.

― Winnie Harlow


There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

― Diane von Furstenberg


The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

― Joan Collins


There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

― Tadao Ando


Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

― Friedrich Schlegel


I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

― Brigitte Bardot


What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

― Albrecht Durer


If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

― Robert Browning


Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

― Eva Herzigova


Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

― Nikolai Gogol


I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

― Kirsten Dunst


Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

― Christopher Morley


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