Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salma Hayek

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

Whitney Houston

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

W. H. Auden

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

William Congreve

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

William Congreve

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Wayne Dyer

Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.

Wayne Dyer

I want to have thoughts of abundance. I want to have thoughts of love, of kindness, of beauty.

Rodney Dangerfield

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Robertson Davies

Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

Robertson Davies

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Fitzgerald

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Vita Sackville-West

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

Vita Sackville-West

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Walt Whitman

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

Walt Whitman

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Walt Whitman

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Roger Scruton

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Roger Scruton

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

Roger Scruton

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

Roger Ebert

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

Rod Taylor

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

Said Nursi

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

Sai Baba

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Saint Augustine

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

Wes Bentley

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I'd rather be hit by a gorgeous man than an ugly one.

Zora Neale Hurston

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.