Herman Melville Quotes

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

The beautiful is always bizarre.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

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.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.

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

I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

One man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.