Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze....

William Butler Yeats

All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

William Butler Yeats

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Walter Savage Landor

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

Walter Savage Landor

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

William Kent

All gardening is landscape painting.

Yogi Berra

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

Rudyard Kipling

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

Samuel Johnson

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Rufus Wainwright

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

William Hazlitt

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

William Hazlitt

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

Walter Raleigh

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

W. Somerset Maugham

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

W. Somerset Maugham

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Vladimir Nabokov

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

Yoko Ono

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Yann Martel

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

Restoring the health and beauty of our major natural resource is something worthy of being on the agenda.

Ben Bernanke

Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites.

Emily Dickinson

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

William Wordsworth

Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene,The work of Fancy, or some happy toneOf meditation, slipping in betweenThe beauty coming and the beauty gone.

William Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more:The homely beauty of the good old causeIs gone.

Part of the beauty of freedom is that freedom is chaotic.

In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you.

Romesh Gunesekera

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.

Sarah Silverman

In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

Brian Molko

In photographs, you'll see that my beauty spot moves around my face quite a bit, depending on where the largest zit is.

Alex Honnold

I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.

I never thought of celebrity. I'm just happy it found a home and that maybe people will find beauty and grace in it. ... I hope that it somehow touches them and gives them something they can take away with them. That's the goal of an artist.