Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auguste Rodin

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Arthur Miller

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Love really does make everything beautiful, from the inside out.

Denis Johnson

Death is the mother of beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.

Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Elbert Hubbard

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Egon Schiele

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Edward Abbey

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

Aristotle

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Aristotle

Beauty is a gift of God.

Aristotle

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.

Aristotle

Beauty is the gift of God

Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Leni Riefenstahl

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Lena Headey

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Said Nursi

In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

Said Nursi

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

Alexis Carrel

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Isabella Rossellini

I don't wear much makeup, except during work. I felt lucky to be chosen to be a model. I used to joke, 'The next best thing to winning the lottery is having a beauty contract.'

Isabella Rossellini

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

Richard P. Feynman

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.

Life is beautiful...it's either your perspective or your shades.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.