Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Joubert

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

Milton Berle

A thing of beauty is a job forever.

H. G. Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

George Herbert

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.

George Herbert

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Jean Dubuffet

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

Georgia O'Keeffe

The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

John Hurt

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

Hunter S. Thompson

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Hu Shih

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Honore de Balzac

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Honore de Balzac

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Oscar Wilde

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

William Shakespeare

Her beauty makesThis vault a feasting presence full of light.

Lord Byron

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

Francis Quarles

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Francis Quarles

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

Francis Quarles

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Homer

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Debbie Ford

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

Stella Young

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

Erica Jong

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.