Quotes About Beauty

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

Beauty can inspire miracles.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.