Beauty Quotes

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.

John Ruskin

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.

John Milton

Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

Jon Stewart

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.

Lauren Hammond

The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God.

Aleister Crowley

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

Charles Eisenstein

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

Yukio Mishima

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

Spike Milligan

Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee, Trembling I waken to a mystery, How through one door we go to life or death By spirit kindled or the sensual breath.

George William Russell

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Tori Amos

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

Andrew Lang

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

Ned Rorem

The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.

Stephenie Meyer

O my love, my wife!Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breathHath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

William Shakespeare

My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

Rachel Bilson