Beauty Quotes

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
– Jock Sturges
Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.
– Dita Von Teese
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
– Laurette Taylor
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
– Peter Latham
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
– Thomas Kincade
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
– Vivien Leigh
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
– Tadao Ando
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
– Candice Bergen
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
– Salma Hayek
People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
– Shirley Manson
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
– Judith Jamison
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
– Mstislav Rostropovich
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
– Anne Lamott
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.
– Ron Ben-Israel
Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.
– Stephen Collins
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
– Jonathan Sacks
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
– Tyra Banks
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
– Arthur Erickson
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
– George Bernard Shaw
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.
– Ed Rendell
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
– Walter Pater
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
– Edward Witten
One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.
– Alessandra Ambrosio
One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.
– Pitbull
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
– Miriam Beard
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.
– Lindsay Wagner
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
– Alexander Alekhine
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
– Jamie Zawinski
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
– Barry Cornwall
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
– Miuccia Prada
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
– Sir Richard Steele
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
– John Donne
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
– Albrecht Durer
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
– Jean Toomer
Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
– Lily Collins
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
– Charles Kingsley
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
– Pamela Anderson
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
– Oscar Niemeyer
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
– Christopher Meloni
My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
– Rachel Bilson
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
– Justin Cronin
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
– Mary Chapin Carpenter
My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
– Rachel Bilson
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
– Bar Refaeli
My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
– Rachel McAdams
My mother is a beauty.
– Mary-Louise Parker
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
– Jennifer Garner
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.
– Hedy Lamarr
My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.
– Emmanuelle Chriqui
My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'
– Robin Roberts
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
– Natasha Henstridge
My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.
– Jessica Ennis
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
– Walter Mosley
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
– Cate Blanchett
My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
– Bar Refaeli
My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.
– Sharon Tate
My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up.
– Shay Mitchell
My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.
– Rachel Bilson
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
– Emily Mortimer
My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.
– Ashley Benson
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
– Dita Von Teese
My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.
– Vivienne Westwood
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.
– Scott Weiland
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
– Jerry Hall
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
– Annie Lennox
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
– Stephen Hawking
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
– Marvin Hamlisch
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
– Marston Morse
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
– Walter Pater
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
– George Henry Lewes
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
– Emily Mortimer
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
– William Hazlitt
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
– Henry Rollins
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.
– Philip Roth
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
– Jane Asher
Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.
– Kate Moss
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
– Ashley Smith
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
– Luis Barragan
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
– Halle Berry
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
– Cristina Saralegui
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
– Colleen Atwood
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
– Margaret Cho
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
– Max Roach
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
– Eva Herzigova
It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.
– Craig Ferguson
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
– Danica McKellar
It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.
– Keri Russell
It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
– Robert Plant
It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
– Lara Stone
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
– Rosanna Arquette
It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
– Victoria Justice
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
– Robin Wright Penn
It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?
– Hilary Swank
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
– Harold Hamm
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
– Story Musgrave