Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

Mariska Hargitay

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

Marianne Moore

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Max Ernst

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

Maya Angelou

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Mason Cooley

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

Mason Cooley

Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

Mason Cooley

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

Mason Cooley

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

Martina Hingis

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

Marie Stopes

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Theophile Gautier

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

Theophile Gautier

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

Theodore Sturgeon

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

Theodore Parker

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

Theodore Roosevelt

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Theodore Dreiser

I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Margaret Fuller

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Margaret Fuller

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

Kin Hubbard

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Kin Hubbard

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Michelangelo

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

Michelangelo

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

Michael Stipe

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

David Wright

I guess that's the beauty of this game, that there's so much room for improvement in every player, ... Unless you can say you'll go out there and hit 1.000 all year, there's room for improvement.

Sathya Baba

If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.  

Carlos Santana

It has to be discovered, and they have to be given the chance to unleash the beauty that God has given them, the potential that's bottled up inside.

Jim Knight

It has the beauty of the Hill Country land without being over the aquifer.