B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.”
Source: Glitch
“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”
“Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.”
Source: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
“Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation. Out of necessity, black women have always had to consider others' perceptions of a certain beauty ideal, just starting with the skin color.”
“Beauty has always been here, waiting for the moment judgment grows quiet.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.”
“Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap and easy. If it's cheap and easy, then upper classes aren't going to aspire to it. So, they have to find something more esoteric. I wanted the paintings to be realistic enough that you would have the ability to forget that I'm showing them to you.”
“Beauty has become a stimulus to garrulity. It has gotten so that on confronting the beautiful one feels duty-bound to say something in a great hurry. It has gotten so we feel we must convert beauty right away. If we don't convert it, it's dangerous. Like explosives, beauty has become a difficult thing to own. The power of possessing beauty through silence, this majestic power for which one would lay down his life, has been lost.”
Source: Forbidden Colors
“Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.”
“Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.”
“Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.”
“Beauty has many faces, voices, all of them worthy.”
Source: Snapshots of a Girl
“Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country”
Source: On Beauty
“Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.”
“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude”
Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet
“Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.”
“Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure.”
“Beauty has nothing to do with the size you wear. It has to do with what's in your heart.”
“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author
“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
“Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.”
Source: Fredolfo: A Tragedy, in Five Acts
“Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Beauty holds more worth than gold.”
“Beauty, I am coming. I am on my way. I have not forgotten your fragile pastries. The ridges on your leavened bread. Half-eaten pomegranate in General Sahib's fridge. Cherries so big they redden Rubiya's hands, Irem's fingers. Kashmir, you are real. You are my half-chilled soup, minced cilantro, my zaman pilaf. Bittersweet chukunder. Rista. Aab gosht. Gurdé Kaporé. Kidney and testicle curry. Kaléji. Sheermal. Lavasa. Tsot. Maythi paratha. Kabuli chana. Nargissi kebab. Tamatar muli. You are a sudden red mirchi. You give me pleasure and pain, both at once. You are my dream, my desire. My North, my brain. My pounding headache.”
Source: Chef
“Beauty if truly experienced is tragedy.”
Source: A Poet's Heart
“Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of sincerities, It rides up in a song. Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart, Grave as the birds in last solemnities Assembling to depart.”
“Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke!”
Source: Ironica
“Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
Source: The substance of man
“Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.”
“Beauty in danger becomes more beautiful”
Source: Fame
“Beauty in Decay!
.
.
I cannot rest easy in the rush of the hour,
where voices echo sharp as machines,
and the headlines knit a web
of ash, steel, and sorrow.
Last evening, in a restful orchard,
I found an old tree split by storms.
Its hollow cradling a single blossom,
pale and trembling in the dusk.
I left it untouched,
its fragile defiance far brighter
than the glow of any city's burning light.”
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
Source: The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].
“Beauty in its best form is kindness, the most valuable currency in the world.”
Source: Bittersweet Symphony
“Beauty in its simplest form doesn't need appraisal or constant change; it is viewed and valued with grace and honesty for what it is and criticizing it will only demean its value.”
“Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.”
“Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.”
Source: Essays Before a Sonata
“Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.”
“Beauty in the world is not always in the "beautiful.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...”
“Beauty inspires me - beauty in nature, people, and art. Smells and fragrances too. I know it sounds weird, but I'm a "fume head." I'm very olfactory-driven.”
“Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.”
“Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.”
Source: Abe Martin's Almanack
“Beauty is a blessing not a hindrance.”
“Beauty is a blind alley. It is a mountain peak which once reached leads nowhere […] Beauty is that which satisfies the aesthetic instinct. But who wants to be satisfied? It is only to the dullard that enough is as good as a feast. Let us face it: beauty is a bit of a bore.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
“Beauty is a brief gasp between one cliché and another.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
“Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.”
“Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.”