Quotes About Beauty

Vera incessu patuit dea. (The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

O ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait. Meanwhile you keep watering it and it has to have sunshine and also you talk to it.

I cling to the beauty and strength of nature and all wild creatures with a passion born of certainty that only through them can i retain my perspective about life and my own part in it.

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'une fille est vieille et moche qu'elle est moins chiante et exigeante qu'une bombasse de vingt ans. Ce qui caractérise les femmes, c'est qu'elles peuvent faire profil bas pendant des mois avant d'annoncer la couleur.

When I was hospitalized at the age of fifteen, the psychiatrist asked me why I had made myself so ugly. I thought he had nerve asking me that, since I thought I looked pretty damn cool with red spiky hair, black lips, white lace tights, and outsize army boots. He insisted, was I afraid of being pretty? He said that I had such lovely eyes.

I am writing as an ugly one for the ugly ones: the old hags, the dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckables, the neurotics, the psychos, for all those girls who don't get a look in the universal market of the consumerable chick. I'm making no excuses for myself. I'm not complaining. I would never swap places, because it seems to me that being Virginie Despentes is a more interesting business than anything else going on out here.

Se mira en un espejo, se encuentra hermosa. Es la primera vez que lo piensa al verse. Ahora es cierto, porque no hay nadie más que ella para juzgarlo. Ya no tiene que preguntarse qué pensará de ella el vecino de enfrente. Ha borrado del mapa a todos los vecinos de enfrente.

Ça m'a toujours tapée comme c'était beau, et ce jour particulièrement. Le viol ne trouble aucune tranquillité, c'est déjà contenu dans la ville.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

Firmitas, utilitas, venustas.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health.

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.