Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence Sterne

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Laurence Sterne

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Larry Evans

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

Libba Bray

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Friedrich Schiller

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Richard Baker

The encouraging performance of our health and beauty businesses in a tough retail climate reflects our renewed focus and investment in these growing markets,

William Blake

The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.

Kate Winslet

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Octavio Paz

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

Jacques Maritain

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

Henry Austin Dobson

The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

Henry Adams

The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

Hedy Lamarr

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

Hedy Lamarr

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

Henry David Thoreau

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Henry David Thoreau

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

Malcolm Gladwell

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

All sweetness and glory, a rose never shrinks from its magnificence.

Roger Bannister

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Francis Quarles

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber

William Butler Yeats

All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

Elle Macpherson

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

Tom Sizemore

You don't have to be a knockdown beauty-boy to be a leading man.

James Allen

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Friedrich Schiller

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Friedrich Schiller

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.

Louis Orr

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

Joe Carnahan

You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'