B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, LOVE is the diamond.
They have together since the beginning of time-
Side by side, step by step.”
“Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Beauty and makeup are not things people should think of as vain. It's an expression of yourself and can be seen as an art form as well. Also, it just makes people feel good because they're taking care of themselves. Anything you do to take care of yourself will inevitably make you feel better. That's the effect makeup has.”
“Beauty and Money will get you a relationship , but not love. Listening, caring and being there will get you Love.”
“Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought Beauty too golden to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of George MacDonald: Enriched edition. Victorian Spiritual and Moral Verse with Vivid Symbolism and Christian Themes
“Beauty and sadness always go together.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of George MacDonald: A Book of Strife, in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul + Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root + A Hidden Life Collection and Other Poems
“Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.”
Source: Within and Without
“Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.”
“Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.”
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be "beautiful" to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both "beautiful" and "sexual" constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Beauty and stone
In the huge town square,
A statue carved from stone witnessed every passer by,
And wondered how it could similar movements acquire,
So that it too could walk if not fly,
Its eyes constantly looked at the strange faces,
Its posture was always the same,
It stood at just one place and it could never visit other places,
For it had sacrificed everything in the static beauty’s name,
That is still, motionless, feelingless and always the same,
It even perceives different things with single perception of mind,
Cursed to play over and over again the same game,
Because for the statue-like beauty everything is predefined,
The posture, the view, the stance, and I guess even its every thought,
At least that is how I feel when I look at the statue placed in the main town square,
It seems to seek what it since eternity has sought,
Because it may bear a fixed expression, but that has nothing to do with its desire,
Because it expresses what its sculptor felt,
And in this crowded town square it looks the same every night, everyday and every time,
Of its own sweet will it has never with anything dealt,
It has witnessed many lovers’ kisses, and it has been witness to many a crime,
But it is its irony to be a statue and nothing else,
Beautiful to look at and admire,
But it has a missing pulse,
That of real, warm, sensitive and sensate beauty in its prime,
So, I sometimes look at it and just pretend it noticed me,
As I leave the spot, I see it unmoved and feelingless,
To it nothing matters, who you are or who you wish to be,
Because it is just beauty carved from stone, completely lifeless,
And then my love I think of you, and I miss you,
So I leave the statue and its stone carved beauty behind,
Because the statue is beautiful, but it cannot be you,
Therefore, instead in my memories and in my heart beats you I discover and always manage to find!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed; Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.”
Source: De rerum natura
“Beauty and style are important, so is integrity, kindness, and the way that you treat other people.”
“Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.”
“Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.”
“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.”
“Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.”
Source: Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story
“Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.”
Source: Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963
“Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.”
Source: Undertones
“Beauty and ugliness do not exist in nature. It's the humans who created these concepts to measure the appeal of an organic or non-organic object to themselves.”
“Beauty and vanity are not twins, though at times one may mimic the other convincingly.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.”
“Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.”
“Beauty and wisdom are the food and the sword of positive change.”
“Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.”
Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou
“Beauty arrests our attention to look upward. It reminds us that there are things in life, such as love and the divine, that we long for so ardently we know---even if we only know it for a fleeting moment---that our yearnings are far deeper than our eyes can see. And that's what faith is, I think."
William situated his elbow against the ground and propped his fist against his cheek. "That's really profound."
"Thank you," Eliza smiled. "That's why I like to include bluebirds in my paintings. They're a reminder that while beauty may be fickle in its coming and going, there's a permanence in the impression it leaves on our hearts. There are roots growing within us that sustain its wings. And maybe that, really, makes beauty the greatest witness to glory there is.”
Source: Paint and Nectar
“Beauty, as always, was in the eye of the beholder - but now, the beholder was holding a scalpel.”
Source: All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.”
“Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.”
“Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
“Beauty-be not caused said Emily Dickinson. 'It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a sunset. The crashing of ocean waves on a beach is created by tides which are themselves the result of gravitational forces exerted by the sun and the moon and the rotation of the Earth. Those are causes.
The mystery lies in how those things become beautiful.
And they wouldn't have been beautiful once, at least not to my eyes. To experience beauty on Earth you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.”
Source: The Humans
“Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.”
“Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.”
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
“Beauty begins with a strong body.”
“Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”
Source: Ferdydurke
“Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.”
Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas
“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“Beauty benumbs man before it grips him in passion.”
Source: Crossing the Mirage - Passing through youth
“Beauty blooms when you are true to who God created you to be.”
“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”
“Beauty brews in silence and the dark.”
Source: Cake in the Blackbird Stew
“Beauty brings copies of itself into being.”
Source: On Beauty and Being Just
“Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.”
“Beauty by design was created only to be appreciated and not necessarily to be owned. Once we violate that principle, we create a lot of chaos and trouble in life.”
“Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.”
“Beauty can be a trap for the vapid…”
Source: What Awaits?
“Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends can be dangerous. If you want to avoid them on these grounds, be my guest. But I wonder what your life will then be like.”