Quotes on Beauty

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

Beautiful people do not just happen

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

I didn't want to create a makeup line for one ethnic group; it had to be multi-ethnic. To me, beauty is beauty. It doesn't matter to me what colour the skin is.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

When I watch a movie, someone's beauty isn't what engages me: it's what's going on internally. And I imagine it's what the audience thinks, too.

Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.