Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Lenny Kravitz

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

Thomas Aquinas

Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

Theophrastus

Beauty is a mute deception.

Leo Buscaglia

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

Lady Gaga

live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other -Lady Gaga via twitter

Lady Gaga

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Josephine Baker

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

Josephine Baker

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Josh Billings

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

Karl Kraus

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Karl Kraus

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time...

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Juvenal

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Pamela Anderson

It's nice when your boyfriend thinks you're beautiful.

Pamela Anderson

Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician.

Ouida

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

Oscar Wilde

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Paul Klee

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Paul Klee

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Paul Klee

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Patrick Dempsey

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

Ovid

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

Ovid

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.