Beauty Quotes - Page 20

• Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Crystals, Purity, Fingers

  Charles Robert Maturin (1819). “Fredolfo: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.39

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• Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Perfection, Attractive

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• The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Greatness, Odds, Produce

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Beautiful, Nature

  Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

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• Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

  Pamela Anderson

  Inspirational, Mirrors, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

  Ernest Renan

  Beautiful, Believe, Love Is

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• Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

  John Dryden

  Constitution, Harmony, Members

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.400

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• Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

  Eva Herzigova

  Enough, Supermodel

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• You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

  Emma Stone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Carpe Diem

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Dies

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous : to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi, His Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies : Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd”, p.135

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• I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

  Courtney Love

  Needs, Body, Plastic

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• The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Art, Numbers

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• Pretty is never beautiful.

  Tori Amos

  Beautiful

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• One rose is enough for the dawn

  Edmond Jabes

  Rose, Dawn, Enough

  Edmond Jabès (1977). “The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book”, Wesleyan

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• All beauty contains darkness.

  Daniel Odier

  Darkness

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Truth, Justice, Humanity

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• Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

  Tim Vine

  Horse, Dark, Black

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• Life is pretty simple:
  You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
  You do more of what works.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Stuff, Life Is

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• But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

  Amy Harmon

  Beautiful, You Are Beautiful

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• I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.

  John J. Geddes

  Illumination, Mind, Found

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• I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Cosmetics, Sells

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• All little girls should be told they are pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Children, Attitude

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beautiful, Way, Praise

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  What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Women, Masculine And Feminine

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.164, Macmillan

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