beauty quotes

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

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

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

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.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‚Wow, she looks so beautiful.‘ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‚What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.‘ It’s pretty ridiculous.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

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

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‚I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!‘ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

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

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

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

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.

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

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

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

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.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.