Beauty Quotes

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Donald Knuth

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Halle Berry

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

Frederick Sanger

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Beth Ditto

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Miriam Beard

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

Pam Grier

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Honore de Balzac

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

Rashida Jones

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hannah Arendt

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Friedrich von Schiller

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Friedrich von Schiller

Yes! thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ... There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my everyday fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

George Eliot