Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Eudora Welty

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

Florence Nightingale

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Fay Weldon

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Farrah Fawcett

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

Farrah Fawcett

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

Eugene Ormandy

Beauty is less important than quality.

Euripides

Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal.

Euripides

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

Francis Beaumont

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

George Santayana

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

George Santayana

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

George Santayana

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

George Santayana

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

George Santayana

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

George Santayana

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

George Santayana

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

George Santayana

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

George Santayana

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Meredith

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

George Meredith

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

G. H. Hardy

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty will save the world

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

George R. R. Martin

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

Frank Sinatra

I am a thing of beauty.

George Edward Moore

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

George Eliot

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

George Eliot

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.