Timeless Beauty Quotes

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Leave it [The Grand Canyon] as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it …. Keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you, as one of the sights which every American … should see.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Rome is an astonishment!

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.

I love looking like classic Hollywood.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Audrey Hepburn, for me, was the end-all, be-all style icon.

Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me.

My makeup hasn't really changed since the 1960s!

Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

To me, true style icons have been few and far between. Elizabeth Taylor comes to mind. I never got to meet her while she was alive, but she is one of those people I have always admired in terms of her sense of style.

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.