I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.
I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
