- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty Quotes
Beauty looks different at every stage.
Several of these push back on secrecy and self-neglect, arguing there's real beauty in guarding a little space of your own. For romantic verse on the same theme, see our Shayari collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I aged and I got stronger artistically, I really started to value my voice in performance - my 'voice' meaning my body, my technique, and my style. Then I started to really feel that flower as well. That's when I started to feel like, 'Wow - now I understand what my beauty is.'
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing wrong with a little self-possession, there's beauty in taking time for yourself just because you feel like it, and there's nothing wrong with not divulging every secret!
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
- Faces
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy that I know how to speak 'Southern.' I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. 'Y'all' is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020