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Quotes About Beauty

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.
~ Susan Sontag
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.
~ William Shakespeare
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
~ William Shakespeare
I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
~ Yancy Butler
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
~ Robert Barry
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.
~ Robert Bateman
How sublime Upon a time-blanchÂ'd cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.
~ Robert Montgomery
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull'd, or by the storm-blasts driv'n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.
~ Robert Montgomery
If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?
~ Robert N. Lee
When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
~ Robert Redford
The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes
~ Roberta Flack
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.
~ Sandra Lee
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
~ Sappho
Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.
~ Sara Teasdale
In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.
~ Selma Blair
I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.
~ Shirley Henderson
Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest!
~ Si Robertson
Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
~ Sophie Swetchine
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I do remember, the first time we met [with Patti Smith], the door opening with a squeak. And then there was this very beautiful girl looking out.
~ Steven Sebring