Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florenz Ziegfeld

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Florence Nightingale

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Cat Stevens

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Jacques Derrida

Beauty only happens once.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Jennifer Hudson

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

Jennifer Hudson

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.

Jennifer Hudson

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

Georges Braque

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty...

George Sand

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Jean-Luc Godard

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Jean Paul

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Jean Paul

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Jim Henson

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Jerome K. Jerome

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini - put it on and stay strong.

Jeff Cox

Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.

Jean Kerr

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Giraudoux

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

James Caan

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Jacques Prevert

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

Jack Vance

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

Gaston Bachelard

A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

Gaston Bachelard

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Fritz Todt

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

Frank O'Hara

the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

Christina Aguilera

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

Christian Dior

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Chris Martin

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.