Quotes on Beauty

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

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!

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

To love beauty is to see light.

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.