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Percy Bysshe Shelley on beauty
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley“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
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Cat Stevens on beauty
Author: Cat Stevens“This is the beauty of the Qur’an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur’an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God’s creation in general.” -Cat Stevens
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Andre Breton on beauty
Author: Andre Breton“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” -Andre Breton
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Alanis Morissette on beauty
Author: Alanis Morissette“Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.” -Alanis Morissette
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Harriet Beecher Stowe on beauty
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Jean Paul on beauty
Author: Jean Paul“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.” -Jean Paul
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Julia Roberts on beauty
Author: Julia Roberts“During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we’ve come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.”
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Phil Ochs on beauty
Author: Phil Ochs“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.” -Phil Ochs
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Jerry Saltz on beauty
Author: Jerry Saltz“Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.” -Jerry Saltz
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Jennifer Aniston on beauty
Author: Jennifer Aniston“I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.” -Jennifer Aniston
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh on beauty
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh“I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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John Dryden on beauty
Author: John Dryden“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.” -John Dryden
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Nikolai Gogol on beauty
Author: Nikolai Gogol“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.” -Nikolai Gogol
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Oliver Goldsmith on beauty
Author: Oliver Goldsmith“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
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Vivien Leigh on beauty
Author: Vivien Leigh“People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.” -Vivien Leigh
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Sydney Smith on beauty
Author: Sydney Smith“Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.” -Sydney Smith
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Washington Irving on beauty
Author: Washington Irving“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
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Tobey Maguire on beauty
Author: Tobey Maguire“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” -Tobey Maguire
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Colin Farrell on beauty
Author: Colin Farrell“Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it’s attractiveness that’s born of just the physical attributes that they have – this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor – or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.” -Colin
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Dennis Prager on beauty
Author: Dennis Prager“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?” -Dennis Prager
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Oliver Wendell Holmes on beauty
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Joan Rivers on beauty
Author: Joan Rivers“The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.” -Joan Rivers
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Oliver Stone on beauty
Author: Oliver Stone“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.” -Oliver Stone
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William Congreve on beauty
Author: William Congreve“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.” -William Congreve
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Christopher Morley on beauty
Author: Christopher Morley“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.” -Christopher Morley