Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
~By Paul Klee ~
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
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.
~By Albrecht Durer ~
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.
~By Thomas Mann ~
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~By Xenophon ~
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
~By Gene Tierney ~
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
~By Jean Paul ~
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
~By Amanda Peet ~
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
~By David Hume ~
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
~By Lily Tomlin ~
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
~By Lee Scott ~
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
~By William Temple ~
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.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
~By Tyra Banks ~
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
~By Clay Aiken ~
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
~By Alexander Herzen ~
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
~By Simone Weil ~
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
~By Camille Paglia ~
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.
~By Robert Motherwell ~
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
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.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
~By James Nasmyth ~
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Beauty is everything.
~By Jorja Fox ~
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
~By Ella R. Bloor ~
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
~By Jock Sturges ~
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
~By Paul Dirac ~
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
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.
~By Max Roach ~
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
~By Donald Trump ~
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
~By Richard H. Baker ~
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
~By Anne Roiphe ~
It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.
~By Alfred Jarry ~
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
~By Laurette Taylor ~
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
~By Andre Gide ~
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
~By Ernst Haas ~
Beauty is a fragile gift.
~By Ovid ~
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
~By Joan Blondell ~
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.
~By Lindsay Wagner ~
Black beauty - he's a dark horse.
~By Tim Vine ~
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
~By Claude Debussy ~
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.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
~By Herbert Gold ~
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.
~By Patricia Sun ~
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
~By Vince Gill ~
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
~By Anne Frank ~
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
~By Alexander Alekhine ~
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
~By John Derek ~
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.
~By Candice Bergen ~
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.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
~By Diane Kruger ~
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
~By Francis Bacon ~
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
~By Emily Prager ~
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
~By Marcel Duchamp ~
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
~By Joan Rivers ~
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
~By Jerry Hall ~
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
~By Bob Dylan ~
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
~By Jude Law ~
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
~By St. Jerome ~
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
~By Dave Reichert ~
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
~By Max Eastman ~
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.
~By Walter Pater ~
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