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Quotes About Perception

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.
~ Edith Hamilton
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
~ George Herbert
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
~ George Augustus Henry Sala
Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.
~ Theocritus
I don't know how people feel,that's the beauty of TV, is they can see us, but we can't see them.
~ Jon Stewart
The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.
~ Kwame Dawes
The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.
~ Kathy Griffin
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.
~ Richard Bach
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
~ Jacques Audiard
While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.
~ Unknown
I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.
~ Anne Rice
Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.
~ Ovid
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
~ Anne Heche
Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.
~ Bertrice Small
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
~ Honore de Balzac
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.
~ Justina Chen
She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
~ David Foster Wallace
Culture opens the sense of beauty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.
~ Susan Sontag
a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.
~ Unknown