Beauty Quotes

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Howard Carter

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

Rachel Stevens

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Barry Cornwall

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Edmond de Goncourt

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

Dave Reichert

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Lascelles Abercrombie

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect teh quality of the day--that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.

Steve Maraboli

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

June Jordan

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

We all have a weakness for beauty.

Albert Camus

Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Janice Dickinson

Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Claude Debussy

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

John Philip Sousa

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Oscar Wilde

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Linda Evangelista

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.

Evangeline Lilly