Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

John Ruskin

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

John Ruskin

There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

John Ruskin

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

John Ruskin

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

John Ruskin

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

John Ruskin

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

John Ruskin

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

John Ruskin

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Marianne Williamson

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

Mason Cooley

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

Mason Cooley

Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

Mason Cooley

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

Mason Cooley

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

Martina Hingis

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

Oscar Wilde

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Oscar Wilde

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Oscar Wilde

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Oscar Wilde

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Oscar Wilde

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Oscar Wilde

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Madonna Ciccone

Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.

Louis Kronenberger

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Liv Tyler

Beauty comes from the happiness within.

Liv Tyler

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Liz Phair

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

Michael Dolan

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

Melissa George

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

Michel de Montaigne

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Michel de Montaigne

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

Michel de Montaigne

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Michel de Montaigne

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.