Beauty Quotes

Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.

Ravi Zacharias

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my trothfor our love is whole;her breath is my wine,her scent is my soul.

Roman Payne

She seemed to say Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?

Evelyn Waugh

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Michael Cunningham

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

Robin McKinley

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Oliver Stone

I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind's treason; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart's need.

R. S. Thomas

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

Susan Neiman

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Suzanne Collins

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

J.M. Coetzee

I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.

Solange nicole

And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

John Milton

And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.

Cressida Cowell

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

Daphne Zuniga

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

Ayn Rand

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

Russell Brand

She walks in beauty. (118)

Ron Rash

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

Robert Herrick

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

Elizabeth Kostova

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.

Pope Paul VI