Beauty Quotes

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

~ Edmund Burke

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

~ Blaise Pascal

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

~ Oliver Goldsmith

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

~ Walter Benjamin

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

~ Aldous Huxley

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

~ Wale

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

~ Monica Bellucci

Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.

~ Monica Bellucci

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

~ Roberto Cavalli

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

~ Dale Archer

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

~ Mother Angelica

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

~ Shannon Tweed

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

~ Oriana Fallaci

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

~ James Fenton

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

~ Washington Irving

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' and after both of them I came home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.

~ Max Schneider

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

~ Erin Gruwell

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

~ David Allan Coe

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

~ Salvador Dalí

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

~ Greg Lynn

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

~ Thomas Fuller

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

~ Peter Zumthor

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

~ Arne Jacobsen

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

~ Carlos Slim

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

~ Goldwin Smith

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

~ Gustav Stickley

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

~ Walt Whitman

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

~ Daniela Ruah

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

~ Daniel Tammet

The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

~ Katherine Schwarzenegger

The more natural or eco-based products you can introduce into your beauty regimen, the more beneficial it is for your skin. It's similar to introducing organic food into your daily diet.

~ Ivanka Trump

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.

~ Tyra Banks

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

~ Abraham Maslow

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

~ Mahatma Gandhi