Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Baltasar Gracian

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Ariana Grande

Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Diana Vreeland

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

Diane Ackerman

What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence, wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

William Shakespeare

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

William Shakespeare

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

Diane von Furstenberg

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

Kate Forsyth

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Burton

'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

Kylie Bax

My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair... I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.

Leni Riefenstahl

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Lena Headey

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Said Nursi

In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

Said Nursi

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

Alexis Carrel

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Isabella Rossellini

I don't wear much makeup, except during work. I felt lucky to be chosen to be a model. I used to joke, 'The next best thing to winning the lottery is having a beauty contract.'

Isabella Rossellini

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

Richard P. Feynman

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.

Life is beautiful...it's either your perspective or your shades.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Thelma Golden

The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.

Thomas Nashe

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

Troian Bellisario

I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.

Todrick Hall

That's the beauty of YouTube. You can take whatever you want and create a video from your home and put it up, and you're just sharing it with your friends.

Todrick Hall

I make YouTube viral videos all the time, and I made a video called 'Beauty and the Beat,' And as a strange, wacky coincidence, Justin Bieber dropped the song 'Beauty and a Beat.'

Bob Dylan

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Bob Dylan

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes