Beauty Quotations

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

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

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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

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

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

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

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.

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.

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

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

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.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

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

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

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.

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.

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

I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that.

Time Bomb encapsulates everything I have learned over the years and wished I could find in a capsule collection. It's the absolute best skincare and body products I could envisage - and I am fussy. I am now able to indulge my love of beauty products and call it research.

There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy.

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

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.

I initially got a job at Disneyland through a friend who was working there. He said, 'You would make a great princess there,' and that I should audition. So I just went on a whim to audition, and I wound up getting a job as Belle, from 'Beauty and the Beast,' at Disneyland. I did that for about a year and a half.

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.

'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.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.

I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my life as a gift, and there is a lot of beauty in other religions. I'm kind of a spiritual mutt.

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

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

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

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.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

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.

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

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

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.

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.

I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

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.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

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

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.

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I dressed like her for every Halloween.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.

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.

Some days, I know beauty techniques like it's my job, and other days I can't do my makeup for the life of me. So I find it easiest to just put on mineral veil and a little mascara and call it a day. I use Physician's Formula and Bare Minerals every day of my life.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.