Quotes About Beauty

We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

O beautiful one, you've robbed the minds of all people.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

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

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

Like Elizabeth Taylor said, 'Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

She roller-set Lizette's hair before she went out on her "money dates" (You're for sale—just fucking say it…).

Know why I have nice skin? No man stressing me out

She has the complexion of a wealthy infant.

He couldn't remember either the names or the addresses or the telephone numbers of two or three staggeringly attractive women he had met: their details were always just out of recall, the fingertips of his memory couldn't reach the shelf they were kept on, so he had no way of tracking down the beauties.

Kat's idea of self-improvement is a good bikini wax.

I didn't know if he was crying for what he'd lost, or for what he'd never had, but there was a beauty in his tears that moved me more than I could ever explain with words—a beauty in the honesty of his sadness, in the grace of it's purity. It was holy water raining down from the clouds in his eyes, falling to the sand then being carried back to the source from which it came—his blessed sea.

said, "Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.

beautiful in St Michael's, had been newly cleaned and filled with vases of fresh flowers. (Professor Dexter's bedder was more than

bolinhos de bacalhau, the delicious codfish fritters cooked on every street corner. The riot of colour that existed everywhere, from the jungle flowers, to the women's stunning dresses, to the frescoes and stained glass windows of the tiny, baroque Chapel of St Rita, where they now stood. All of it made Gunther Hartog feel young again. Young and alive. 'What if Pierpont got wise?' The worry lines deepened on Jeff Stevens's face. 'What if…?

Men look at women the way men look at cars. Everyone looks at Ferraris. Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all end up with station wagons.

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

THERE ARE CURRENTLY VERY CLOSE TO TEN thousand species of birds in the world, both beautiful and improbable, and they have contributed more to the study of zoology than almost any other group of animals (Konishi et al. 1989). The reasons are obvious: birds are diurnal, they are often easily observed and studied, and we like them.

isolated instances of beauty and in no urgent need of beholders.

Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

Like no other place on earth. Raw natural beauty, relentless freedom, unorthodox natives. A friend told me something else about the Keys I never forgot: Down here, nobody is who they seem to be. When people in other parts of the country want to reinvent themselves, they come to Florida. But when people in Florida want to reinvent themselves, they come to the Keys.

Love is like a flower, it needs nurturing and care to blossom into something beautiful.