Top 100 Beautiful But Quotes
#2. I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England.
Tess Gerritsen
#3. I may have been beautiful, but I was still a fighter. I couldn't erase my weeks of training. And being decorated inflowers didn't change that.
Stephanie Archer
#4. I wanted you before this, for who you are - so intelligent, brave - delicate and beautiful. But now, you have power and strength, too. Danger, thy name is Evie. You are something from a dream and I just want ... he trails off.
Amy A. Bartol
#5. Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.
Liane Moriarty
#6. Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric.
Lindsey Kelk
#7. Love is a beautiful but terrible thing," he said. "You have to be careful with it. It can destroy you.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#8. He was just beautiful. She'd never known a man could be beautiful, but he definitely was.
Emily Jane Trent
#9. Me? Kachka, you love me!" "I love your beauty. I have no use for you personally. You represent all that we hate." "Why do you talk to him so?" Elina asked. "He cannot help that he is beautiful but worthless." "I am not worthless! I am Gwenvael the - " "We do not care, lizard!" Kachka barked.
G.A. Aiken
#10. I believe life is about balance. My mom was brilliant, yet manipulative. Beautiful, but had more voices in her head than the Wu-Tang Clan. Loves her kids, killed her last husband. I say last husband because you don't get another one after that.
Christopher Titus
#11. There will be boys who tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you -Babcia
Laura Ruby
#12. His mother had said that men were handsome and women beautiful, but after seeing Benjamin swimming and then lying on his blanket, David knew his mother was completely wrong - Benjamin was beautiful.
Geoff Laughton
#13. The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.
Ruth Reichl
#14. All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
#15. The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.
James Montgomery
#16. With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.
Robert Walser
#17. Not Cassie for Cassandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. Cassie for Cassiopeia, the constellation, the queen tied to her chair in the northern sky, who was beautiful but vain, placed in the heavens by the sea god Poseidon as a punishment for her boasting. In Greek, her name means she whose words excel.
Rick Yancey
#18. There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.
Theophile Gautier
#19. All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.
Ali Vincent
#20. I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
Maggie Stiefvater
#21. I almost never draw a completely naked man. He has to have at least a pair of boots or something on. To me, a fully dressed man is more erotic than a naked one. A naked man is, of course beautiful, but dress him in black leather or a uniform - ah, then he is more than beautiful, then he is sexy!
Tom Of Finland
#22. Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#23. I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating
Kate McKinnon
#24. Sedona is beautiful, but your soul is even more beautiful.
Ilchi Lee
#26. She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly
Ernest Hemingway,
#27. Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.
Leah Raeder
#28. He had danced with fair maidens before, but Odette was different. She was graceful and beautiful, but there was something in her eyes and in the things she said, an intelligence and a boldness that belied her quiet demeanor.
Melanie Dickerson
#29. Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
Robert Henri
#30. Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.
Debasish Mridha
#31. When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear ... also very suggestive ... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.
H.R. Giger
#32. Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.
Gunter Brus
#33. You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.
Luke Davies
#34. I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.
Adina Porter
#35. The world is beautiful but Life never promised to be smooth.
Biola Olatunde
#36. Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.
Mark Twain
#37. Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.
Unknown
#38. Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.
Marissa Meyer
#40. A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it's moody, and storm is coming, there's an energy in the air.
Brett Dennen
#41. Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.
Meghan Daum
#42. If I had any hand in it at all there's a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.
Anna Torv
#44. I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch
#45. The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.
Diane Setterfield
#46. She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.
Barry Lyga
#47. I'm such a believer in 'if you're beautiful on the inside it really shows on the outside.' I know a lot of people who are physically very beautiful, but their inside doesn't represent that. So to me, it just doesn't come across as having a sparkle to them or an energy that just radiates.
Megan Park
#48. I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
Maureen Johnson
#49. Like a flower, be soft, loving, kind, and beautiful, but never lose the courage to bloom.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Richard had realized, not that Elfine was beautiful, but that he loved Elfine. (Young men frequently need this fact pointing out to them, as Flora knew by observing the antics of her friends.)
Stella Gibbons
#51. The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#52. When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
Carine Roitfeld
#53. Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.
Otto Von Bismarck
#54. My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play.
Marcel Proust
#55. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
Anonymus Artist
#56. People still judge a book by its cover, Avery. And your story? It's beautiful. You're beautiful. But I'm nothing but a ripped out page, graffiti where some should never be. Don't taint your story with me.
J.M. Darhower
#57. To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.
Pascal Mercier
#58. There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.
Haruki Murakami
#59. I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.
Charlie Watts
#60. Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
Haruki Murakami
#62. Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
Gary Allan
#63. I'm not going to say who looks the most beautiful, but it's clear. It's Jared Leto. I mean, he's the prettiest. Boy is he pretty
Ellen DeGeneres
#64. Was a sandcastle, beautiful but temporary. So why did you give yourself to him in this way, Sofia?
Bella Forrest
#65. Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.
Michelle Tea
#66. I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#67. I wanted to tell her she was beautiful, but it almost seemed like saying that to her would be diminishing it. You don't reassure a rainbow it's colourful, or a star that it shines. Sometimes, not saying something says more than anything else.
Nina G. Jones
#68. Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.
J.M. Barrie
#69. According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.
Plato
#70. It's gorgeous. I didn't figure it would be so fucking beautiful. But it's . . . rugged and captivating." Ty's eyes strayed to the pristine vista behind Zane, then back to Zane. He smiled slowly. "Kind of like someone else I know," Zane added. He raised an eyebrow. "I sense mischief brewing." Ty
Abigail Roux
#71. His gaze moved from me to my hand as his brows rose and his grin transformed into a heart-stopping smile that reached his eyes, lightening them and warming them up. Seth not smiling or smirking was beautiful, but him smiling?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#72. Believe that you are not only beautiful, but you are amazing and wonderful.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.
Jeff Buckley
#74. Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.
Ralph Levy
#75. As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful ... but so frightening.
Alice Walker
#76. We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much.
Nicole Christie
#77. I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.
Lana Del Rey
#78. Everything, he decided, was almost unbearably sad. Life was wonderful, but nobody seemed to know what to do with it, and the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists.
Craig Rice
#79. It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful. But to be less affluent than these T-shirted, joke-cracking fatsos-
Jonathan Franzen
#80. She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.
Richard J. O'Brien
#81. Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.
Kristin Kreuk
#83. I'm a fan of designers and clothes that look beautiful, but more importantly, make me feel beautiful and confident. It's why I've always loved Stella McCartney, and more recently, Prabal Gurung. Their pieces are cool, yet timeless, and the fits are effortlessly flattering.
Shay Mitchell
#84. To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
Agnes Smedley
#85. When you live in a psychic state of mind, you are happy. You don't have to do anything. Life is always beautiful, but we don't see it when we enter into lower states of mind that are, in effect, cloudy.
Frederick Lenz
#86. Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.
Tim Rice
#87. I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
Lily Tomlin
#88. There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
Sally Field
#89. I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
Natsuo Kirino
#90. All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.
Amit Kalantri
#91. I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#92. World is beautiful but it is dangerous place to live, there is so much evil behind a normal person.
John Art
#93. Now, carols are always beautiful, but if you are sad they can make you feel sadder. (There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.)
Dodie Smith
#94. Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
Emmanuel Jal
#95. The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.
Homaro Cantu
#96. Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
Karl Kraus
#97. They should be beautiful, but I know what they are. They are not beautiful, because beauty is about grace and love and hope. They are all about need.
Carrie Jones
#98. Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
Walead Beshty
#100. Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can never be a sculpture. It can be elegant and very beautiful, but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts - or predetermined form - it cannot fly.
Peter Matthiessen
