Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

William Shakespeare

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

William Shakespeare

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

Orison Swett Marden

The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

Zoe Kravitz

I don't really have a beauty routine. I always use coconut oil, and I always wear mascara. That's kind of it! I'm pretty simple.

Paul Desmond

The qualities in music I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity,

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

White Rock Lake is a refuge from city life. If we lose that, we lose our natural beauty ... and I don't want to lose that.

Restoring the health and beauty of our major natural resource is something worthy of being on the agenda.

Restoring the Biloxi Lighthouse Fishing Dock and the Small Craft Harbor will help bring back some beauty and enjoyment to this great city.

Ben Bernanke

Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites.

Emily Dickinson

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

William Wordsworth

Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene,The work of Fancy, or some happy toneOf meditation, slipping in betweenThe beauty coming and the beauty gone.

David Thomson

There had never been such a display of dangerous, brutal male beauty on an American stage -- its influence can still be felt, in fashion photography and sport as well as acting.

We are going to have a beauty contest in drag.

David Rakoff

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

Bela Karolyi

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

We do not need more private piers. People are not going to keep coming here if we keep impacting the natural beauty of this lake.

John Cage

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

John Cage

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Francis Bacon

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Ruby Dee

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity.

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

John Galsworthy

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

John Galsworthy

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

John Donne

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John O'Donohue

We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.

John Mortimer

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

John Millington Synge

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

John Berger

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.