Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Fielding

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Helena Rubinstein

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty can never really understand itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Gustav Stresemann

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Gustave Flaubert

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

John Dryden

All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

John Dryden

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

John Dryden

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

John Lyly

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

John Lubbock

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Joan Sutherland

I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

Joanna Baillie

To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

William Butler Yeats

Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.

William Butler Yeats

Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

Dick Bennett

It's as realistic for us to win three games, so why not four. Someone has to suffer. I'm just thankful to be in, and who knows what could happen. That's the beauty of tournament time. But, of course it's going to be hard.

George Bernard Shaw

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Bob Dylan

There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes

Dontrelle Willis

It's baseball. That's the beauty of it, playing the games. It's a double-edged sword. Anything can happen. This team has the capability. We just haven't hit yet.

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

Tamara Taylor

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

Sarah Hall

The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.

David Hockney

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty of the salary management system. You just stop when you run out of money.

William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Chanakya

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.