Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robertson Davies

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Fitzgerald

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Walt Whitman

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

Walt Whitman

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Roger Scruton

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Roger Scruton

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

Rod Taylor

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

Said Nursi

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

Sai Baba

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Saint Augustine

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Zora Neale Hurston

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

Zora Neale Hurston

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

Zora Neale Hurston

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Zhuangzi

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

Tyra Banks

I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business.

Tyra Banks

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

William Goldman

For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Wilfred Owen

I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.

Wilfred Owen

Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.

Voltaire

To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back,

Voltaire

Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.

William Ralph Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

William Butler Yeats

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

William Butler Yeats

Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

William Butler Yeats

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

William Butler Yeats

And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.

William Butler Yeats

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone....