Beauty Quotes

She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.

~ Mavis Gallant

People die and starve every day, but look on the bright side. Lower population.

~ Stephen David Mcgoughan-Matthews

He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.

~ Eli Easton

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it

~ Alice Walker

Being here to witness the beauty, to learn, to be astonished, to love - is enough. Being able to create in addition is a delightful honour.

~ Jay Woodman

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

~ Brandi L. Bates

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

~ Raheel Farooq

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

~ Sara Sheridan

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

~ Roman Payne

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

~ Roman Payne

Beauty is an attitude. There's no secret. Why are all brides beautiful? Because on their wedding day they care about how they look. There are no ugly women - only women who don't care or or don't believe they're attractive.

~ Estee Lauder

All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.

~ Damon Willis

He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she'd fall on her face.She said, If we don't let her have one like all the other girls she'll feel singled out. It'll become an issue. She'll long for one and she'll long to turn into one. Repression breeds sublimation. You know that. He said, It's not just the pointy plastic tits, it's the wardrobes. The wardrobes and that stupid male doll, what's his name, the one with the underwear glued on.She said, Better to get it over with when she's young. He said, All right but don't let me see it.She came whizzing down the stairs, thrown like a dart. She was stark naked. Her hair had been chopped off, her head was turned back to front, she was missing some toes and she'd been tattooed all over her body with purple ink, in a scrollwork design. She hit the potted azalea, trembled there for a moment like a botched angel, and fell.He said, I guess we're safe.

~ Margaret Atwood

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

~ Zadie Smith

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance, class.

~ Alice Munro

Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.

~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic — beauty belongs to the thoughtful, tragedy to the neglectful.

~ Bryant Mcgill

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

~ Marty Rubin

...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.

~ Amy Tan

You're ruining that book! He pointed to the page I'd torn out. That's a perfectly good book! Holding his gaze, I reached down and ripped another page out. I'm making roses. Well, it's my book. Sorry. I tore out another.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

You want to break the curse, I want to break the curse. We don't need to be nice. We need to be effective. Just help me figure it out, and I'll make you a rich woman.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoonsWithout tempering my amazementKnowing all beauty eventually dies.

~ Justin Wetch

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Oh fair enough are sky and plain,But I know fairer far:Those are as beautiful againThat in the water are;The pools and rivers wash so cleanThe trees and clouds and air,The like on earth was never seen,And oh that I were there.These are the thoughts I often thinkAs I stand gazing downIn act upon the cressy brinkTo strip and dive and drown;But in the golden-sanded brooksAnd azure meres I spyA silly lad that longs and looks And wishes he were I.

~ A.e. Housman

The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath 'em all, and his grey eyes fairly glowed. It was the first time I ever saw him smile free. A true smile. It was like looking at the face of God. And I knowed then, for the first time, that him being the person to lead the colored to freedom weren't no lunacy. It was something he knowed true inside him. I saw it clear for the first time. I knowed then, too, that he knowed what I was - from the very first.

~ James Mcbride

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

~ William Shakespeare

As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this freshness was giving birth to vivacity and gaiety, and shape to the courage needed to forge a soul that does not pale, no matter what life brings, regards life not as a heavy burden, a cross, but merely as a duty, and does battle with it with dignity.He had devoted much mental care to his heart and its wise laws. Observing the reflection of beauty on the imagination, both consciously and unconsciously, then the transition from impression to emotion, its symptoms, play, and outcome and looking around himself, advancing into life, he derived for himself the conviction that love moves the world like Archimede's lever, that it holds as much universal and irrefutable truth and good as misunderstanding and misuse do hypocrisy and ugliness.p. 494

~ Ivan Goncharov

Love is seeking the good and being the good.

~ Erica Goros

[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.

~ Rebecca Solnit

If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.

~ Michael Sanders

It comforted her, in the confused unhappy welter of her emotions, to see the mountains always tranquil, remote, in their lonely splendour; untouchable, serenely inviolate. It was an obscure comfort to her to know that man's hectic world wasn't the only one — that there were others, where agitation and passion and bewilderment had no place. When her love turned into a chaotic fever-dream, in which she was tossing, hallucinated, frightened and miserable, she had longed to escape to the cold, austere, changeless beauty and peace of the snow.

~ Anna Kavan

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time or is like to--this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?

~ Jane Welsh Carlyle

Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

~ V.c. Andrews

Beauty is a God-given talent that we should all conserve.

~ Moffat Machingura

The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.

~ Kayla Severson

In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.

~ Bryant Mcgill