Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helena Rubinstein

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty can never really understand itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Eric Fischl

Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.

Emma Stone

I do put on a little make-up every day because it helps me feel put together. Mascara is essential.

John Henry Newman

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

William Blake

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

William Blake

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep.

Carme Ruscalleda

Society is seduced by beauty but food must have a soul, too.

Ayn Rand

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty can inspire miracles.

Benjamin Disraeli

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.

Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Elbert Hubbard

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Egon Schiele

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands

And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died,The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. . . .

Lynsey Addario

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.