Devotions on Beauty

All Things Bright And Beautiful
Embroidery
Find Something Beautiful
How Rich Are We?
I�d Pick More Daisies
Life�s Changes
My First Airplane Ride
Only God Can Make a Perfect Heart!
Spring
The Old Fisherman
The Rose
The Sea
The Water Bearer
The Weaver
The Wings of a Butterfly
Unique Flaws

Quotations on Beauty

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
- George Eliot
*** Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.
- Anonymous
*** When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
*** Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
- Horace
*** Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
- George Brossin M�r�
*** In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
- Christopher Morley
*** There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
*** Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
- Charles Reade
*** Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
- Kin Hubbard
*** Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Emily Dickinson
*** Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
- Friedrich von Schiller
*** Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Edward Gibbon
*** I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
- Benedict Spinoza
*** Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
- Serge Gainsbourg
*** No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
- Kin Hubbard
*** Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
*** The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
- Helen Keller
*** Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
*** Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
- Langston Hughes
*** She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate.
- Henny Youngman
*** It is not when he is working in his office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.' - From The Importance of Living (1937)
- Lin Yutang
*** Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfield
*** There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
- Helena Rubenstein
*** For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.
- Robert Bridges
*** You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
- Anouk Aimee
*** Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
*** As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
- Annie Dillard
*** Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?
- Lili St. Cyr
*** When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!
- Maria Montez
*** The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
- Margaret Bourke-White
*** One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
*** Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
- Imelda Marcos
*** I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
- Fitz-Greene Halleck
*** I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
- John Glenn
*** Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
- Aldous Huxley
*** Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Douglas Adams
*** The idea that beauty is revolutionary is a revelation to me...I've discovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, can't add, can't work from verbalized concepts, but that does make melodies with pitch and rhythm...beauty is enough.
- Beth Anderson
*** But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
- Anne Boyd
*** It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
- Benjamin Britten
*** The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
- John Cage
*** Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
- George Bancroft
*** Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- Jean Rostand
*** Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
- Redd Foxx
*** Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
- E. M. Forster
*** Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
- E. M. Forster
*** Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
- Drew Barrymore
*** Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
- Margaret Cho
*** I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
- Margaret Cho
*** Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
- Margaret Cho
*** Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
- Margaret Cho
*** The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins
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