925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.” — Lindsay Wagner

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“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.” — Phyllis Diller

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“Beauty has a lot to do with character.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.” — Groucho Marx

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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Henry James

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“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

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“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.” — Alicia Machado

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“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.” — Joanne Woodward

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“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.” — Christopher Morley

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“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.” — Edward Steichen

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“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” — John Ruskin

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“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.” — Phyllis Diller

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“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.” — Albrecht Durer

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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” — Pablo Neruda

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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.” — William Hazlitt

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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.” — Galileo Galilei

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“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.” — Jane Austen

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“The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.” — Rose Kennedy

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“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.” — Arthur Helps

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“If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.” — Matthew Fox

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