Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

Remy de Gourmont

Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.

Remy de Gourmont

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Timothy Radcliffe

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Robert Adams

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

Robert A. Heinlein

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Robert A. Heinlein

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

Sophia Loren

Beauty is how you feel inside...

Roger Rosenblatt

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

Thomas Mann

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Thomas Merton

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

Saadi

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

Saadi

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

Rumi

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Rumi

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Rumi

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!

Rumi

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Rosalind Russell

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Stevie Smith

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

Stevie Smith

Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.

Stephen Sondheim

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Stephen Fry

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Rihanna

You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

Richard Chamberlain

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Robert Bridges

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Robert Bridges

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them

Robert Boyle

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

Robert Boyle

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

Toni Morrison

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

Toni Morrison

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.