Beauty Quotes - Page 69

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.

At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.

As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.