Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Madonna Ciccone

Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.

Louis Kronenberger

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Liv Tyler

Beauty comes from the happiness within.

Liv Tyler

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Liz Phair

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

Michael Dolan

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

Melissa George

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

Michel de Montaigne

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Michel de Montaigne

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

Michel de Montaigne

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Michel de Montaigne

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Mark Twain

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

Mark Twain

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

Marianne Williamson

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Maria Edgeworth

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

Nadine Gordimer

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

R. D. Laing

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

R. D. Laing

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

R. Buckminster Fuller

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

R. Buckminster Fuller

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Priscilla Presley

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

Publilius Syrus

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Pope Paul VI

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Kinky Friedman

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

Omar Suleiman

The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

Marcel Duchamp

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

Marcel Duchamp

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Kinky Friedman

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Khloe Kardashian

I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards.