3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Browning If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
3 December 2020 Anne Boyd But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul 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.
3 December 2020 Mos Def With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn’t just about being noticed, you know?
3 December 2020 John Dryden Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
3 December 2020 Halle Berry I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I’m really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
3 December 2020 Nikolai Gogol Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
3 December 2020 Tom Wolfe This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.
3 December 2020 Donna Rice Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
3 December 2020 Diane Kruger Her beauty didn’t do her any good and she couldn’t use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
3 December 2020 Matthew Prior For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
3 December 2020 George Sand The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
3 December 2020 Jung Chang I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham 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.
3 December 2020 Teri Hatcher This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.
3 December 2020 Laurie Holden The beauty of ‘The Walking Dead’ and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it’s your backstory, it’s part of what you are, it’s what you carry with you every day.
3 December 2020 Leslie Jamison Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
3 December 2020 Joan Smalls I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don’t have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
3 December 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
3 December 2020 Francesca da Rimini Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
3 December 2020 Peter Latham Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
3 December 2020 Sharon Stone I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.
3 December 2020 Robert Mapplethorpe I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.
