Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

William Wordsworth

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

William Wordsworth

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

William Shatner

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

William Morris Hunt

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

Will Cuppy

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

Sappho

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Said Nursi

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

Sai Baba

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Saint Augustine

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

Tori Amos

Pretty is never beautiful.

Robin Wright

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Robinson Jeffers

...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe....

Robinson Jeffers

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

Robert Motherwell

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Russell Crowe

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

Rick Yune

Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.

Richard Rorty

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Richard Russo

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

Roald Dahl

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Richard Roeper

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Richard Le Gallienne

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Richard Corliss

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Roger Scruton

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Roger Scruton

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

Roger Scruton

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

Roger Ebert

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

Rod Taylor

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

Sarah McLachlan

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

Sara Teasdale

Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

Sara Teasdale

O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.