Quotes About Beauty

If you turn out to be useful as well as ornamental, you can stay forever.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

But, do you know, once you get used to it, it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks all right to start with, she still looks all right with her head smooth.

Little Brother...precious darling...little imp with lively legs and lovely lewd lascivious lecherous licentious libido...beautiful bumps and pert posterior...with soft voice and gentle hands. My baby darling.

It is a region of high plains and of mountains, having limited fertility but esteemed for natural beauty. Its

She found as always that words on paper proved themselves; they were so beautifully true.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.

Thou are God," Mike repeated serenely. "That which groks. Anne is God. I am God. The happy grasses are God. Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together—" He croaked something in Martian and smiled.

Okay, she was healthy and if a healthy woman liked to be looked at and not as a side of beef then it follows, as the night from day, that healthy men should like to look at them, else there was just no darn sense to it.

I deduced a minor truth: gems make fine accents for female beauty—but only as accents; beauty is fundamental. Better no jewelry than to deck a lovely woman like a Christmas tree.

beauty will lure a man into bed, but it won't bring him back a second time, unless he's awfully young or very stupid.

I am not indifferent to male beauty, but my sensuality is not perfectly balanced; in the presence of a homely female and a beautiful male, I tend to look at the female. So I'll never be an esthete; I lack judgment in matters of beauty. I apologize in advance to any female who finds my primitive attitude offensive.

Spanish is so musical that a soap powder commercial in Spanish is more pleasing to the ear than the best free verse in English—the Spanish language is so beautiful that much of its poetry sounds best if the listener does not understand the meaning.

Her face lit up. "What's wrong with this little stand of trees?" "Mmm. Yes. Now.

When a woman mediates beauty and grace to the world, often it is the Aphrodite or Venus energy at work.

Aphrodite often shows her tyrannical side and thinks her word is law.

this surely is the worst deprivation of all: to be barred from the essence of beauty and holiness when just those qualities are right in front of you is the cruelest of all suffering

What a fantastic piece of hot lustful woman she was, Roger thought irrelevantly.

I suggest, following some ideas in semantics and modern logic, that Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman of her time should be considered a self-referential statement. That is, it refers to the nervous system of the speaker. Properly, it should be phrased as Marilyn Monroe seemed the most beautiful woman of her time to me. Stated thusly, it is true (unless we want to be so tricky as to assume the speaker is deliberately deceiving us).

Persons who take their heaviest imprint on this circuit are beautiful. That is, their entire body has received so many sexual neurotransmitters from the brain that they are constantly radiating the "attractive" mating signals that make up our perception of what is "beautiful" in a human being.

In our maturer years, when an object of vision is presented to us which bears any similitude to the form of the female bosom . . .we feel a general glow of delight which seems to influence all of our senses . . .

But, even if this explanation be granted, the wonder and the beauty of some of these images continue to haunt the drug experimenter. As Jung himself has said, "It is pointless to deny the gods, when confronted with forces that act just as the gods are supposed to act.

One knows that a god is in the temple when, after contemplating the coherence of the structure, one is seized, violently, by the power and beauty of it, as by a light or flame or an effulgence. This illumination is a discharge of compressed energy and information.