Beauty Quotes

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

~ William Hazlitt

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.

~ Christie Brinkley

Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter.

~ Nia Peeples

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

~ Mary Chapin Carpenter

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

~ Alek Wek

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

~ Colm Tóibín

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

~ Oscar Wilde

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

~ John Clayton

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.

~ Diane Kruger

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

~ Lucy Punch

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

~ John Eldredge

'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

~ Manny Farber

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

~ Allison Janney

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

~ Chaim Potok

I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing.

~ Craig Sager

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

~ Louis Kahn

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.

~ Christian Louboutin

Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.

~ Virginia Postrel

Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality.

~ Henrik Fisker

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

~ James Randolph Adams

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

~ Euripides

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

~ William Penn

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

~ Emmanuelle Seigner

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

~ Charlotte Smith

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

~ Doris Day

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

~ Pico Iyer

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

~ Blake Lively

Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

~ Olivia Wilde

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

~ Eduardo Galeano

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

~ Lea Thompson

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

~ Luise Rainer

My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.

~ Blake Lively

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

~ Helen Rowland

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

~ Sherilyn Fenn

I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.

~ Sam Smith

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

~ Paul Horn