vrijdag 6 april 2012

Top 100 Beauty Quotes









Afbeelding .

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke



A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson



A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot

But love's a malady without a cure.
John Dryden

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
Henri Matisse

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn

Love conquers all.
Virgil

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

Aristotle Quote
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.
Darren L. Johnson

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht

Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Anne Campbell

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
Christina Rossetti

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas

Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quote
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Francis Beaumont

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho

One must not trifle with love.
Alfred de Musset

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud

Only do what your heart tells you.
Princess Diana

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
Billie Holiday

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Love is love's reward.
John Dryden

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
Catherine Deneuve

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a hole in the heart.
Ben Hecht

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. Sheen

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Gustave Flaubert

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides

Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. Forster

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

In every living thing there is the desire for love.
David Herbert Lawrence

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm

In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno

It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
Leslie Fiedler

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne


Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Brigitte Bardot

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Leo Buscaglia

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Euripides

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
Dwight L. Moody

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
John Gay

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato



A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats



The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Katherine Anne Porter

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
Conrad Hall

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. Giger

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
Liv Tyler

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen

To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Albrecht Durer

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Tadao Ando

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




I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
Kirsten Dunst



Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal

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

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
Priscilla Presley

Integrity reveals beauty.
Thomas Leonard

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles Lamb

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith




A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith




A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
Alex Comfort

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
Eva Herzigova

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo





Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran







Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
Loretta Young

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
Emily Mortimer

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Hedy Lamarr

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Barry Cornwall

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Khalil Gibran

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
George William Russell

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
Laetitia Casta

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
James Caan

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
Edward F. Halifax

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. Wells

Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

Beauty is only skin deep.
Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet




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