beauty quotes

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Beauty without expression is boring.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

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

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

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

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

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

Water’s never clumsy.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

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.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

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.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.