Quotes about Beauty

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  1. Beauty awakens the soul to act. - Dante Alighieri, Poet
    01-Jun-1265 - 13-Sep-1321
     
  2. There is a role and function for beauty in our time. - Tadao Ando, Architect
    13-Sep-1941
     
  3. People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. - Tadao Ando, Architect
    13-Sep-1941
     
  4. Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. - Jean Anouilh, Playwright
    23-Jun-1910 - 03-Oct-1987
     
  5. The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. - Minna Antrim, Writer
     
  6. Hold fast to youth and beauty. - Elizabeth Arden, Businessman
    31-Dec-1878 - 18-Oct-1966
     
  7. By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. - Hannah Arendt, Historian
    14-Oct-1906 - 04-Dec-1975
     
  8. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. - Aristotle, Philosopher
     
  9. Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. - Richard Armour, Poet
     
  10. It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality. - Rosanna Arquette, Actress
    10-Aug-1959
     
  11. Beauty has a lot to do with character. - Kevyn Aucoin, Artist
    14-Feb-1962 - 07-May-2002
     
  12. Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. - Kevyn Aucoin, Artist
    14-Feb-1962 - 07-May-2002
     
  13. Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. - Saint Augustine, Saint
    13-Nov-0354 - 28-Aug-0430
     
  14. 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, Soldier
    26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180
     
  15. 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, Writer
    16-Dec-1775 - 28-Jul-1817
     
  16. The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. - Roy Ayers, Musician
    10-Sep-1940
     
  17. A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. - Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher
    27-Jun-1884 - 16-Oct-1962
     
  18. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. - Francis Bacon, Philosopher
    21-Jan-1561 - 09-Apr-1626
     
  19. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. - Francis Bacon, Philosopher
    21-Jan-1561 - 09-Apr-1626
     
  20. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon, Philosopher
    21-Jan-1561 - 09-Apr-1626
     
  21. For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. - Richard H. Baker, Politician
    22-May-1948
     
  22. 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, Educator
     
  23. Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. - Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theologian
    12-Aug-1905 - 26-Jun-1988
     
  24. Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. - Honore De Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  25. At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. - Honore de Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  26. 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, Historian
    03-Oct-1800 - 17-Jan-1891
     
  27. I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. - Brigitte Bardot, Actress
    28-Sep-1934
     
  28. We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. - Roy Barnes, Politician
    11-Mar-1948
     
  29. Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. - Luis Barragan, Architect
    09-Mar-1902 - 22-Nov-1988
     
  30. Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. - Luis Barragan, Architect
    09-Mar-1902 - 22-Nov-1988
     
  31. I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. - Charles Baudelaire, Poet
    09-Apr-1821 - 31-Aug-1867
     
  32. One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. - Miriam Beard
     
  33. And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. - James Beattie
     
  34. 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, Author
    29-Nov-1962
     
  35. When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. - Bernard Berenson, Historian
    26-Jun-1865 - 06-Oct-1959
     
  36. People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. - Candice Bergen, Actress
    09-May-1946
     
  37. The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. - Sarah Bernhardt, Actress
    22-Oct-1845 - 26-Mar-1923
     
  38. Beauty is not just physical. - Halle Berry, Actress
    14-Aug-1968
     
  39. Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. - Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
    24-Jun-1842
     
  40. 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, Actress
    13-Sep-1944
     
  41. I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you. - Joan Blondell, Actress
    30-Aug-1906 - 25-Dec-1979
     
  42. I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. - Ella R. Bloor
     
  43. I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. - Lisa Bonet, Actress
    16-Nov-1967
     
  44. The beauty of the past belongs to the past. - Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer
    14-Jun-1906 - 27-Aug-1971
     
  45. There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. - Christian Nestell Bovee, Author
     
  46. A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. - Paul D. Boyer, Scientist
    31-Jul-1918
     
  47. Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. - Robert Bridges, Poet
    23-Oct-1844 - 21-Apr-1930
     
  48. There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. - Vera Brittain, Writer
    29-Dec-1893 - 29-Mar-1970
     
  49. 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, Composer
    22-Nov-1913 - 04-Dec-1976
     
  50. What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. - Joseph Brodsky, Poet
    24-May-1940 - 28-Jan-1996
     
  51. Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. - Helen Gurley Brown, Editor
    18-Feb-1922
     
  52. The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet
    06-Mar-1806 - 29-Jun-1861
     
  53. I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. - Robert Browning, Poet
    07-May-1812 - 12-Dec-1889
     
  54. Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. - Craig Bruce
     
  55. A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. - William C. Bryant, Poet
    03-Nov-1794
     
  56. Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. - Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
    06-Jun-1892 - 06-Mar-1973
     
  57. Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. - Delta Burke, Actress
    30-Jul-1956
     
  58. Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke, Statesman
    12-Jan-1729 - 09-Jul-1797
     
  59. I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. - Mark Burnett, Businessman
    16-Jul-1960
     
  60. It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. - Edgar Rice Burroghs
     
  61. 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, Politician
    11-Feb-1953
     
  62. 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, Actor
    13-Nov-1969
     
  63. To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. - Samuel Butler, Poet
    04-Dec-1835 - 18-Jun-1902
     
  64. And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure. - William Allen Butler
     
  65. Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. - David Byrne, Musician
    14-Mar-1952
     
  66. I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. - George Byron, Poet
    22-Jan-1788 - 19-Apr-1824
     
  67. 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, Actor
    26-Mar-1940
     
  68. I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. - Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer
    11-Jun-1815 - 26-Jan-1879
     
  69. 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, Philosopher
    07-Nov-1913 - 04-Jan-1960
     
  70. Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. - Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher
    04-Dec-1795 - 05-Feb-1881
     
  71. I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. - Robert Caro, Writer
    30-Oct-1935
     
  72. The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations. - Robert Caro, Writer
    30-Oct-1935
     
  73. My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. - Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician
    21-Feb-1958
     
  74. The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. - Alexis Carrel, Scientist
    28-Jun-1873 - 05-Nov-1944
     
  75. Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains. - Tia Carrere, Actress
    02-Jan-1966
     
  76. We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. - Howard Carter, Scientist
    09-May-1874 - 02-Mar-1939
     
  77. Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good. - Laetitia Casta, Model
    11-May-1978
     
  78. As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. - Arthur Cayley, Mathematician
    16-Aug-1821 - 26-Jan-1895
     
  79. The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. - Chanakya, Politician
     
  80. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. - Chanakya, Politician
     
  81. I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. - Jung Chang, Writer
     
  82. 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, Actor
    16-Apr-1889 - 25-Dec-1977
     
  83. For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. - John Cheever, Writer
    27-May-1912 - 18-Jun-1982
     
  84. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further. - Joan Chen, Actress
    26-Apr-1961
     
  85. Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. - Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
    22-Sep-1694
     
  86. Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. - Margaret Cho, Comedian
    05-Dec-1968
     
  87. The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. - Helena Christensen, Model
    25-Dec-1968
     
  88. 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, Artist
    13-Jun-1935
     
  89. To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. - Charles Churchill, Poet
     
  90. Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Statesman
     
  91. There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. - John Clayton
     
  92. 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, Musician
    06-Sep-1939
     
  93. Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. - Paulo Coelho, Novelist
    24-Aug-1947
     
  94. And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food. - Joan Collins, Actress
    23-May-1933
     
  95. Well I've written four beauty books as well. - Joan Collins, Actress
    23-May-1933
     
  96. The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. - Joan Collins, Actress
    23-May-1933
     
  97. Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me. - Stephen Collins, Actor
    01-Oct-1947
     
  98. The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. - Barbara Colorose
     
  99. A women's greatest asset is her beauty. - Alex Comfort, Author
    10-Feb-1920 - 26-Mar-2000
     
  100. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius, Philosopher
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