Alphonse Karr Quotes

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

The foundation of beauty is the body.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Beauty is its own excuse.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

Beauty would save the world.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

I think beauty is an expression of love.

Real beauty is my aim.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

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

I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!