Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Tom Stoppard

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Sallust

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

Thomas Gray

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Thomas Leonard

When you spend your days doing what fulfills you, you are attractive.

Thomas Leonard

Integrity reveals beauty.

Thomas Campion

Beauty is not beauty without love.

Thomas Adams

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

Victoria Moran

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

Victoria Moran

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it-through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Victor Hugo

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Victor Hugo

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Victor Hugo

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

Victor Hugo

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

Victor Hugo

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

Victor Hugo

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light.

Vernon Howard

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Vanna Bonta

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Suzanne Collins

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

Suzanne Collins

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Taylor Caldwell

We are not old unless we desire to be.

Tadao Ando

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

Rollo May

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Rumi

Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

Rumi

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

Stendhal

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Stendhal

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.