Beauty Quotes - Page 61

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.

Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.