Beauty Quotes

Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.

Proverb

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

Victoria Moran

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

Miranda Hart

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

B. W. Powe

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.

Marilynne Robinson

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

Baldur von Schirach

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

Don Williams, Jr

...it's fat women who are really beautiful. The fatter the better.

Antonio Olinto

It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

Milan Kundera

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.

Walter de la Mare

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

Nora Raleigh Baskin

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Beth Kephart

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

Muriel Barbery

I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?

Elizabeth Coatsworth

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Anne Rice

We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others.

Caroline Knapp

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

Your product choices and styling techniques will determine whether you love or hate your hair.

Nicole Harmon

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

Francis Jeffrey

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti