Beauty is one of those things everyone recognizes and nobody can quite define. These quotes take on physical beauty, natural beauty, inner beauty, and the strange way beautiful things can make you feel both happy and a little sad at the same time.
“The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”
“After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.”
“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.”
“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”
“Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.”
“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
“A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.”
“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”
“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”
“Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.”