Beauty Quotes

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.
– Daphne Zuniga
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
– Tadao Ando
You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.
– Sloane Crosley
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
– Marie Stopes
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.
– Marie Carmichael Stopes
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
– Kelly Osbourne
With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
– Mos Def
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
– John Keats
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
– William Wycherley
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
– Thomas Jefferson
Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.
– Sherri Shepherd
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
– Mason Cooley
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
– Tony Kushner
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
– Charles Baudelaire
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
– Rosalind Russell
When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.
– Alexis Arguello
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
– Christy Turlington
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
– Natalia Vodianova
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
– Akhenaton
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
– Frederick Sanger
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
– Dimebag Darrell
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
– Vladimir Kramnik
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
– Richard Dawkins
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
– Annie Lennox
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.
– Francine Pascal
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
– R. Buckminster Fuller
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
– Bernard Berenson
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
– Victor Hugo
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
– John Keats
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
– Julie Burchill
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
– Lisa Bonet
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
– Hu Shih
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
– Gertrude Jekyll
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
– Shinichi Suzuki
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
– Walter Pater
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
– Dame Edith Evans
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
– Kevin Williamson
What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
– Julie Burchill
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
– Albrecht Durer
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
– H. P. Lovecraft
Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
– Cate Blanchett
Well I've written four beauty books as well.
– Joan Collins
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
– Doris Day
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
– Gene Tierney
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
– Charlie Haden
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
– Howard Carter
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
– Christo
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
– Rem Koolhaas
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
– Junichiro Tanizaki
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
– Roy Barnes
We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
– Mary McDonnell
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
– Patricia Sun
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
– David Amram
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
– Maria Montessori
We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.
– Jenifer Lewis
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
– Carre Otis
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
– Ellsworth Huntington
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
– Richard Le Gallienne
We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.
– Shay Mitchell
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
– Derek Walcott
Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.
– Colin Farrell
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
– Adam Schiff
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
– Serge Gainsbourg
Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.
– Chrisette Michele
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
– Christopher McCandless
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
– Kevyn Aucoin
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
– Mike Krzyzewski
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
– Dodie Smith
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
– Dave Grohl
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
– Leslie Jamison
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
– Candice Bergen
This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
– Pam Grier
This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.
– Ian Rush
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
– Cat Stevens
This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.
– Tila Tequila
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
– Lillie Langtry
These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
– Julie Burchill
There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
– Jody Watley
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
– Celine Dion
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
– Mike Figgis
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
– John Erskine
There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.
– Scott Weiland
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
– Helena Christensen
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
– Oscar Wilde
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
– Joseph Addison
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
– Gertrude Jekyll
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
– John Clayton
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
– Liv Tyler
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
– Maria Mitchell
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
– Anna Quindlen
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
– William Congreve
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
– H. R. Giger
There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.
– Jonathan Ive
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
– Tadao Ando
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
– June Jordan
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
– Gustav Stickley
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
– Chanakya