925 private quotes tagged beauty

“It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.” — Robert Plant

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“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.” — George Byron

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

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“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.” — St. Jerome

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“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” — Serge Gainsbourg

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“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.” — Peggy Fleming

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“I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.” — Halle Berry

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“Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.” — Lil Wayne

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“Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.” — Emmanuelle Beart

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“There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.” — John Clayton

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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.” — Jean Ingelow

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“Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.” — Annie Lennox

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“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.” — Rashida Jones

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“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.” — Marc Jacobs

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“Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.” — Gene Tierney

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“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” — Sophia Loren

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.” — John Keats

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“I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.” — Shirley MacLaine

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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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“A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.” — Xenophon

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“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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