Famous Quotes & Sayings

Langston Hughes

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

John Keats

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

John Keats

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

John Keats

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

Josh Billings

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

Karl Kraus

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Karl Kraus

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time...

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Juvenal

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Pamela Anderson

It's nice when your boyfriend thinks you're beautiful.

Pamela Anderson

Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician.

Ouida

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

Oscar Wilde

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Paul Klee

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Paul Klee

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Paul Klee

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Patrick Dempsey

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

John Philip Sousa

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

John Podhoretz

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

Ovid

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

Ovid

I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

Ovid

Beauty is a frail good.

Ovid

A pleasing face is no small advantage.

Ovid

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

Ovid

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.