Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Leo Buscaglia

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

Lauren Conrad

I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.

Lady Gaga

live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other -Lady Gaga via twitter

Lady Gaga

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Josephine Baker

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

Josephine Baker

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Mother Teresa

Life is beauty admire it!

Peter Paul Rubens

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

Phyllis Diller

When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.

Rabindranath Tagore

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

Rabindranath Tagore

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Queen Latifah

I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.

Plato

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

Gustav Stresemann

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Gustave Flaubert

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

John Dryden

All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

John Dryden

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

John Dryden

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

John Lyly

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

John Lubbock

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Julie Burchill

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Katherine Center

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Kathe Kollwitz

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

Katherine Anne Porter

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

Katherine Anne Porter

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.