Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is the beginning of beauty.

Dwight Freeney

I think a 10-3 score is a thing of beauty. I know a lot of people don't like it, but to me, it's beautiful.

Kurt Warner

Being 0-3 is a tough place to be. We keep doing a lot of good things and get close to the end zone, but we don't do enough good things once we get down there. I guess the beauty of it is there's not a whole bunch of teams out there that have set themselves apart, and as fast as it goes one way, you can get it going the other way.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Beauty, to me, is an esoteric energy that I can't fully comprehend. I'm surrounded by inexplicable beauty all the time.

Robert Bridges

Beauty sat with me all the summer day, / Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; / Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, / Love in her train stood ready for his prey.

Jen Lancaster

Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.

Aldous Huxley

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder

James Redfield

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.

John Milton

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.

John Milton

Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown/ In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities.

Wallace Stevens

Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But in Jason I can honestly say there's not one red flag.

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty

Jackie Chan

I guess her beauty is deceiving everyone. You may think that Hee-sun is like a princess all the time, but she is more like pretty boy in real life, ... She is really good at crying scenes. There must be a switch somewhere in her body to do that.

Nancy Willard

the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

Nancy Pelosi

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

Mordecai Richler

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

Milan Kundera

A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

How goodness heightens beauty!

Milan Kundera

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

Marcel Proust

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

Marcel Proust

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Joseph Addison

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Joseph Addison

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

John Suckling

If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

James Joyce

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Russell Lowell

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

James Redfield

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.

James Goldsmith

Beauty is a social necessity.

Laurence J. Peter

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.