Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

Ovid

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

Ovid

Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

Ovid

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Peter Garrett

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Paul Valery

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

Kate Hudson

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

George MacDonald

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

George MacDonald

Beauty and sadness always go together.

Emily Mortimer

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Beautiful people do not just happen

John Crowe Ransom

I am a lady young in beauty waiting Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.

John Constable

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Burroughs

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Joan Crawford

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Joan Collins

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

Manuel Puig

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Louise Bogan

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louisa May Alcott

When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

John Green

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Joyce Carol Oates

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

Kate Upton

I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

Kate Winslet

I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids...I'm doing all right. I'm 33. I don't look in the mirror and go, "Oh, I look fantastic!". Of course I don't. Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, "This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!". I'm proud of that.

Julie Burchill

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Katherine Center

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.