Beauty famous quotes
05-21-2025
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
-- A. A. Milne -
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
-- A. A. Milne -
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
-- A. A. Milne -
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
-- A. C. Benson -
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
-- A. L. Rowse -
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
-- Aaliyah -
I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
-- Aaliyah -
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
-- Adele -
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
-- Adele -
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
-- Adriana Lima -
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
-- Agnes Martin -
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
-- Agnes Smedley -
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.
-- Aino Kallas -
No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn`t even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Beauty is transient and changes with time.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
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 -
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
-- Alan Cohen -
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
-- Alan Seeger -
Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.
-- Alan Seeger -
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 -
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-- Albert Einstein -
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-- Albert Einstein -
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
-- Albert Einstein -
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
-- Albrecht Durer -
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 -
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore...
-- Alex Flinn -
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.
-- Alexander Pope -
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
-- Alexander Pope -
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.
-- Alexander Smith -
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
-- Alexis Carrel -
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "IsnÂ’t that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"
-- Alice Freeman Palmer -
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
-- Alice Walker -
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
-- Alicia Machado -
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
-- Alison Bechdel -
The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.
-- Allen Tucker -
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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 -
I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.
-- Amber Riley -
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
-- Ambrose Philips -
Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.
-- Amy Adams -
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
-- Amy Bloom -
True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.
-- Amy Davis -
But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.
-- Amy Harmon -
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
-- Anais Nin -
Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
-- Andre Breton -
Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
-- Andy Warhol -
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-- Ani DiFranco -
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
-- Ann Radcliffe -
It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
-- Anna Pavlova -
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
-- Anne Carson -
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
-- Anne Frank -
I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.
-- Anne Geddes -
I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through my work as a photographer, I have been able to pass on my appreciation of their beauty and charm.
-- Anne Geddes -
some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.
-- Anne Perry -
What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.
-- Anne Rice -
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
-- Anne Roiphe -
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.
-- Annie Besant -
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
-- Annie Dillard -
Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.
-- Annie Dillard -
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
-- Anouk Aimee -
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury -
Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself.
-- Anthony Zee -
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.
-- Antoni Zygmund -
So must the artist do in working at the nude.
-- Antonio Canova -
Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.
-- Ariana Grande -
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
-- Aristotle -
The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.
-- Aristotle -
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
-- Aristotle -
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
-- Aristotle -
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
-- Arthur Cayley -
Beauty is revealed when we learn to see with our hearts. The more educated our hearts the greater beauty we can see. Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.
-- Arthur Dobrin -
True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.
-- Arthur Frederick Saunders -
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 -
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
-- Arthur Miller -
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
-- Arthur Rimbaud
