Quotes About Beauty

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

All art is quite useless.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.