Sonya Hartnett Quotes

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

Anything is beautiful if you say it is.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

There's never an ugly bubble.

The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.