Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

George Berkeley

A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.

George Bernard Shaw

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

George Bernard Shaw

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

George Bernard Shaw

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

George Bernard Shaw

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

George Bernard Shaw

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Gelett Burgess

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

Galileo Galilei

Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.All girls are insecure, they may not show it, but they are, every girl believes that they have a 'defect' but honestly, you don't! every girl is beautiful, no matter what she wears, what she looks like, or how her body is. don't worry about that senseless stuff, beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Freeman Dyson

The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

Erich Fromm

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Andrew Motion

Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a picture of great intrinsic beauty and the bewitching evocation of an age. The National Portrait Gallery is its natural home. The picture is cheap at the price, and if we don't buy it someone else will.

Bowdoin College leads the pack for culinary cachet with its students: 'The food makes Bowdoin feel like home,' they say. Even though 'rumor is that the dining budget was cut this year,' for many prospectives considering this small Maine school, 'the campus's beauty and food sealed the deal.'

Delta Burke

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Every state has its own type of beauty.

Julianne Moore

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.

Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

Jorja Fox

Beauty is everything. Love is innocent. A future with the perfect man is life.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

William Shakespeare

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Pablo Casals

Beauty is all about us, but how may are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Samuel Johnson

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness

Beauty doesnt decide who we love, love decides who we find beautiful.

Beauty Brands believes in making people feel good about themselves and increasing self-esteem. That's one of the reasons we love to welcome professionals like Michael O'Rourke to work with our customers and offer them a great new look.

Steve Erickson

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.

Oscar Wilde

A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.

One day you're up. The next you're down. Tomorrow there's another game. That's the beauty of baseball.

The song of the rose is heard with the nose.

The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

Julie Burchill

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.