Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily Tomlin

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.

If the highest beauty requires both prettiness and harshness, perfection and discord, this place is sublimely beautiful.

I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.

I always liked it here. This is beautiful.

One of the interesting findings in the holiday report is that women were more likely to buy a beauty product for themselves than as a gift for others. Women want to invest in themselves and spend money on things that make them feel good.

Christie Brinkley

I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters.

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.

Walter Mare

Since that all things thou wouldst praise / Beauty took from those who loved them / In other days.

Gustave Flaubert

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances

Sid Bernstein

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Jean Paul

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Jean Paul

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Jim Henson

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Jerome K. Jerome

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini - put it on and stay strong.

Jeff Cox

Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.

Jean Kerr

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Giraudoux

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

James Caan

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Jacques Prevert

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

Jack Vance

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

Gaston Bachelard

A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

Gaston Bachelard

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

Evelyn Underhill

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Evelyn Underhill

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Evelyn Underhill

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Eugene Delacroix

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

Eugene Delacroix

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Eugene Ionesco

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Ernest Hemingway

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.