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Beauty Quotes

Beauty Definition  
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Milan Kundera

How goodness heightens beauty!
Milan Kundera

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler

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

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Lord Chesterfield

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.
Janice Dickinson

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Albrecht Durer

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

Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve

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

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
Sheryl Crow

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

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol

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