Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Pater

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

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 ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

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?

William Makepeace Thackeray

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Zoe Kravitz

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.