Beauty Sayings & Quotes
These beauty sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Industrial societies turn their citizens into image junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it. - Susan Sontag
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. - Richard Armour
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. - John Ruskin
Few women's merit lasts as long as their beauty. [Fr., Il y a peu de femmes dont le mérite dure plus que la beauté.] - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. - Christopher Marlowe
Beauty draws more then oxen. - George Herbert
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. - Lord Byron
'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down the street. - Joseph Rudyard Kipling
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. - Herman Melville
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. - Edward Morgan Forster
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men, where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time. - Charles A. Lindbergh
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. - Simone Weil
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Sir Francis Bacon
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scan't explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. - Galileo Galilei
Beauty is the gift of God. - Aristotle
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. - William Shakespeare
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and 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
Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. - Georgia O'Keeffe
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. - Ralph Waldo Emerson