Quotes About Beauty

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest." – Christian Dior

I didn't mean it' he said again. She tried to smile, but had to sniff instead. Her face was wet, and her nose was running. He thought she looked beautiful.

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.

His tired face was lit with a brief beauty as he smiled, and the two nuns and Colonel Nicobar and Twingo smiled too, glad to find a common ground for merriment, however momentary. For a few seconds Stalin, Pope Pius the Twelfth, and King George the Sixth laughed together in the persons of their representatives.

L'uovo ha una forma perfetta benché sia fatto col culo.

When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we gave achieved a balanced life.

What is a car, for many people, if not a piece of travelling sculpture?

When one studies something characteristic of a people it is wise to look at its best side, at least if one wants to learn anything. Ugly things are ugly in much the same way the world over. Only the best can teach us, and the best of anything is individual. Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.

in Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single flower to bloom. And If you would be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven … This is the faith in God the cactus has.

The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

A man is never ugly.

She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.

The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the "a." - from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli On Cats

Of late the nights are dawning plum-blossom white.

Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

except my eyes had fallen right off the vista and landed on a black 1967 Chevy Impala. It didn't belong up here in the woods any more than Petite might've, but it was a beautiful car. Gary parked a few spaces down from it and I got out to walk circles around it. Kansas license plates. I patted the Impala's hood and mumbled, "Long way from home, aren't you, baby?" before reluctantly turning away.

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

She kisses the children goodnight, leaving lipstick on their foreheads and a trail of Chanel No.5.

The velvet darkness of his face

I don't feel less because I'm in the presence of a beautiful person. I don't go, oh, I'll never be that beautiful! What a ridiculous attitude to take! ....When men look at sports, when they look at football, they don't go, oh, I'll never be that fast!, I'll never be that strong!

Beauty is our escape from the murky flesh-envelope that imprisons us.