Beauty Quotes

Alas for the Earth! We are overthrown and have no friend to redeem us. Beauty shall pass utterly from the Land

Stephen R. Donaldson

Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.

Camille Paglia

Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess The might, the majesty of loveliness?

Lord Byron

The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions.

Frank O'Hara

Before you decide if someone is beautiful close your eyes and listen.

Evette Carter

Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.

James Joyce

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty

R. S. Thomas

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao Tzu

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

Cath Crowley

Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.

William Wordsworth

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

Matthew Arnold

There is so much beauty in the world, but you must allow yourself to see it.

Tom Giaquinto

There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me.

Lord Byron

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor or have not any sense

Kin Hubbard

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

Richard Armour

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

Vivienne Westwood

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Clifford Geertz

People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.

Ashly Lorenzana

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

Hedy Lamarr