925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.” — Zoe Saldana

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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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“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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“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.” — Rachel Roy

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“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!” — H. P. Lovecraft

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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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“Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.” — Matthew Fox

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

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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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“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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“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” — Christopher Morley

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“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.” — Conrad Hall

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“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” — David Allan Coe

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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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“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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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes

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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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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Montessori

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“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.” — John Ruskin

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“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.” — Christian Dior

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

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