Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saadi

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

Rumi

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Rumi

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Rumi

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!

Rosalind Russell

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Shane West

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Suzy Parker

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Sophia Loren

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Simone Weil

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

Simone Weil

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Simone Weil

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

Thomas Mann

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Thomas Merton

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

Stendhal

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Stendhal

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

Stanley Crouch

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

Spike Milligan

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

Simon Cowell

Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

Shirley Hazzard

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Shakira

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Shakti Gawain

When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

Remy de Gourmont

Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.

Remy de Gourmont

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Timothy Radcliffe

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Robert Adams

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

Robert A. Heinlein

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Robert A. Heinlein

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.