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Quotes About Beauty

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
~ John Ruskin
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
~ Socrates
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
~ Dolly Parton
A fun pair of earrings is basically the finishing touch to any outfit; a nice watch is both practical and decorative, while the perfect unique bag is not only eye-catching but also timeless - it can be passed on to future generations.
~ Liu Wen
I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
~ Tatyana Ali
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
~ Candice Bergen
While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
~ Philip Sidney
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
~ Lena Horne
I feel today, with all the possibilities we have in our hands, all the new technology at our disposal, everything is becoming obvious. Nothing is surprising. You can see beautiful things on Instagram, but there is something that doesn't touch you deeply. Everything is normal, while there's nothing that grabs you and turns you upside down.
~ Ludovico Einaudi
Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
~ Serena Williams
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
~ Charles de Gaulle
People think that just because you're an actress, you have to watch your weight and stay slim. While this is true to some extent, fitness is more about health than looking good.
~ Neha Dhupia
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
~ Giorgio Vasari
We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
~ A. E. Hotchner
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
~ Hanneli Mustaparta
Whilst I may look good, I do find it hard to find the right man.
~ Marie Helvin
I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
As a disciple of my father's, I was certain I wanted to include one of his own raga creations on 'Home', as they are so beautiful; whilst many of his creations are part of the general classical repertoire for all musicians, many more are only played by those of us who learned from him, and therefore need to be played.
~ Anoushka Shankar
On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I always try to have a fun nail. It's something whimsical that you can pull off anytime.
~ Gracie Gold
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~ Xenophon