Beauty Quotes

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

~ Gustave Courbet

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

~ Spike Milligan

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

~ Hugh Ross

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

~ Robin Roberts

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

~ Imelda Marcos

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

~ Celine Dion

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.

~ Michelle Phan

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

~ Ally Condie

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

~ Eliza Farnham

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

~ Brigitte Bardot

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

~ Eleanor Catton

Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

~ Nolan Bushnell

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

~ Amy Grant

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

~ Charles Jencks

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

~ Max Roach

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

~ Richard Le Gallienne

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

~ Johnny Depp

I think diet plays an important role before any beauty and skincare regime. Taking care of what you eat and drinking lots of water throughout the day always come first.

~ Disha Patani

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

~ Jamie Lee Curtis

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

~ John Keats

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

~ Frank Norris

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

~ Lewis Mumford

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

~ Lindsay Wagner

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

~ John Keats

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

~ Laurence J. Peter

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

~ Denis Waitley

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

~ Herbert Gold

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

~ Jacqueline Bisset

Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.

~ Evelyn Lauder

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

~ Deepak Chopra

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

~ William Congreve

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

~ Tina Brown

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

~ Gary Hamel

In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

~ Adrienne Mayor