Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Elias Canetti

Beauty always has something remote.

Arthur Helps

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

Ashley Greene

I feel most beautiful at night, when I take my makeup off and it's just me.

Arthur Cayley

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Walter Mare

Since that all things thou wouldst praise / Beauty took from those who loved them / In other days.

Gustave Flaubert

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty

Archibald MacLeish

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

Ashley Wagner

I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful

Ashley Smith

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

Baruch Spinoza

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

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.

Sydney Smith

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

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.

Ed Rendell

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

Eliphas Levi

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

Eliphas Levi

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

Eleanora Duse

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Dominic Monaghan

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.