Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Casals

Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement...as if they were lost and desperate.

Pablo Neruda

From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze

Plautus

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

Plato

Beauty is a natural superiority.

Plato

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

Plato

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

Plato

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

Plato

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Plato

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

John Suckling

If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

John Philip Sousa

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

John Podhoretz

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

Philip Sidney

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Philip Sidney

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

Philip James Bailey

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Marlene Dietrich

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

Marlene Dietrich

[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

Mariska Hargitay

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

Marianne Moore

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Marianne Moore

Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.

Terence Stamp

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Nora Ephron

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

Morris Kline

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

Miranda Kerr

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

Mike Murdock

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.

Mignon McLaughlin

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

John Ruskin

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.