Beauty Quotes (669)

Quotes and citations about beauty

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell... view

By: Lascelles Abercrombie

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold... view

By: James Randolph Adams

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty... view

By: Joseph Addison

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here... view

By: Clay Aiken

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

By: Anouk Aimee

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion... view

By: Isaac Albeniz

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

By: Leon Battista Alberti

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead... view

By: Louisa May Alcott

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands... view

By: Alexander Alekhine

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!.. view

By: Alexander Alekhine

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal... view

By: Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act... view

By: Dante Alighieri

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life... view

By: David Amram

There is a role and function for beauty in our time... view

By: Tadao Ando

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect... view

By: Tadao Ando

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength... view

By: Maya Angelou

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God... view

By: Jean Anouilh

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... view

By: Minna Antrim

Hold fast to youth and beauty... view

By: Elizabeth Arden

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality... view

By: Hannah Arendt

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen... view

By: Alexis Arguello

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference... view

By: Aristotle

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people... view

By: Richard Armour

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality... view

By: Rosanna Arquette

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty... view

By: Margot Asquith

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were... view

By: Colleen Atwood

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul... view

By: Kevyn Aucoin

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me... view

By: Kevyn Aucoin

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven... view

By: Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty has a lot to do with character... view

By: Kevyn Aucoin

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... view

By: Kevyn Aucoin

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

By: Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul... view

By: Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God.. view

By: Saint Augustine

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... view

By: Marcus Aurelius

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... view

By: Jane Austen

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers... view

By: Roy Ayers

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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

By: Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite... view

By: Francis Bacon