Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

Chanakya

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Charles Baudelaire

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Charles Baudelaire

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

Charles Baudelaire

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.

Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Charles Baudelaire

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Charles Baudelaire

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

Bessie Smith

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Bill Vaughan

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

Bill Vaughan

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

Nathaniel Buzolic

I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

Nia Peeples

Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter.

Wallace Stevens

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Bobby Brown

We're so used to seeing beauty outside all around us here. I want everyone to come in and see the beauty inside these artists' souls.

What he looked for was parity and equality and respect, and I think that he did get. Now, the respect, yes, I don't know if we have the parity and the equality because there are still advertisers who don't think of Ebony. There are still advertisers who don't think of Jet. Where we have to go in and sell them and re-sell them constantly, constantly, but I think it's the respect of the white community, that's what he wanted. I want people to realize what he did for African-Americans; he gave us a face. He made people recognize the beauty in us, the intellect in us, and also the pride that we have.

We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, bring things into a whole.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am waylaid by beauty.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Benjamin Franklin

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Arthur C. Clarke

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Anton Chekhov

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Baltasar Gracian

Beauty and folly are generally companions.