All Quotes

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
‐‐ Vitruvius

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.
‐‐ James Redfield

Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
‐‐ Alek Wek

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
‐‐ Jacques Audiard

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
‐‐ Anne Bronte

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
‐‐ Socrates

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.
‐‐ Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
‐‐ Fay Weldon

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
‐‐ G. H. Hardy

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
‐‐ Luis Barragan

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
‐‐ Joan Chen

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
‐‐ Rabindranath Tagore

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
‐‐ John Keats

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
‐‐ Odette Annable

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.
‐‐ Julie Newmar

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
‐‐ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.
‐‐ Tia Carrere

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
‐‐ John Dryden

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
‐‐ Gustave Courbet

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.
‐‐ James De La Vega

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan

Beauty makes life easier. People want to do things for you. They want to marry you and pay for everything.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
‐‐ Redd Foxx

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
‐‐ Sara Teasdale

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.
‐‐ Claude Debussy

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
‐‐ Florenz Ziegfeld

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.
‐‐ George Matthew Adams

Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.
‐‐ Ann Demeulemeester

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
‐‐ Salma Hayek

'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
‐‐ Kate Burton

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
‐‐ John Greenleaf Whittier

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
‐‐ Candice Bergen

Beauty should not be culturally relevant; it should be universal.
‐‐ Alek Wek