Beauty Quotes
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Praised be the gods that made my spirit mad; kept me aflame and raw to beauty's touch. (Quote by - Angela Morgan)
Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deper than itself. (Quote by - Shairp)
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. (Quote by - Thomas Nash)
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful? (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen, In pastoral array. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Beauty from order springs. (Quote by - William King)
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. (Quote by - George Eliot)
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. (Quote by - Ninon de L'Enclos)
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
Beauty is the flower of virtue (Quote by - John Ray)
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. (Quote by - Emerson)
The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? (Quote by - Richard Rodgers)
Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (Quote by - John Keats)
No gems, no gold she needs to wear; she shines intrinsically fair. (Quote by - Thomas Bedingfield)
There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable. (Quote by - Anon)
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out. (Quote by - Zora Neale Hurston)
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Beauty and folly are generally companions. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. (Quote by - Rumi)
And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, that when she dies with beauty dies her store. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul! (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. (Quote by - John Donne)
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. (Quote by - George Santayana)
I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. (Quote by - W. S. Maugham)
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. (Quote by - Emerson)
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful. (Quote by - Bernard Shaw)
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing and therefore, of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. And I further add that the good is the beautiful. (Quote by - Plato)
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Paris wrapped in night! half nebulous The moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs.. A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the vapor's floating scarves, the Seine Trembles, mysterious, like a magic mirror Cyrano Act 5. (Quote by - Edmund Rostand)
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. (Quote by - Lady Duff-Gordon)
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty. (Quote by - Juvenal)
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (Quote by - George Sand)
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful. (Quote by - Sapho)
Beauty is a mute deception. (Quote by - Theophrastus)
Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting. (Quote by - Theocritus)
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
Beauty is the virtue of the body, as virtue is the beauty of the soul. (Quote by - Emerson)
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. (Quote by - Lady Blessington)
All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses. (Quote by - J. G. Saxe)
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. (Quote by - Johann Von Schiller)
All women are not Helen......but have Helen in their hearts. (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. Three years she grew in Sun and Shower. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
For she was beautiful: her beauty made the bright world dim, and everything beside seemed like the fleeting image of a shade. (Quote by - Shelley)
The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Beautiful faces are those that wear whole-souled honesty printed there. (Quote by - Ellen P. Allerton)
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. (Quote by - E. B. Browning)
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. (Quote by - Sara Teasdale)
Take from our hearts the love of the beautiful, and you take away all the charm of life. (Quote by - Rousseau)
Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might--the majesty of Loveliness? (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe. (Quote by - Sarah McLachlan)
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Kindness is worth more than beauty. (Quote by - Jean D'Arras)
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. (Quote by - H. A. Overstreet)
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Quote by - Confucius)
And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me. (Quote by - Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way. (Quote by - Don Williams, Jr)
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. (Quote by - Confucius)
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. (Quote by - Goethe)
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? (Quote by - Longfellow)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. (Quote by - Macaulay)
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. (Quote by - Hellen Keller)
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. (Quote by - Erasmus Darwin)
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. (Quote by - George Chapman)
the call of a loon across a quiet lake. (Quote by - Conserve New Hampshire)
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. (Quote by - O. W. Holmes)
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in mind which contemplates them. (Quote by - David Hume)
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. (Quote by - Ibid)
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. (Quote by - John Keats)
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy! (Quote by - Anne Frank)
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. (Quote by - Hartley Coleridge)
Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought. (Quote by - Robert Buchanan)
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings. (Quote by - Plato)
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. (Quote by - Emerson)
Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Attractive people are assumed to be kinder, more genuine, sincere, warm, sexually responsive, poised, modest, sociable, sensitive, interesting, strong, more exciting, more nurturant, and of better character than the less attractive. (Quote by - Dr. Ellen Berscheid)
Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within-strength, courage, dignity. (Quote by - Ruby Dee)
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
Beauty, you lifted up my sleeping eyes and filled my heart with longing with a look. (Quote by - John Mansfield)
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, not utter'd b base sale of chapmen's tongues. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. (Quote by - Roseanne)
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. (Quote by - John Erskine)
Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful. (Quote by - Schiller)
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. (Quote by - Romeo and Juliet)
For beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature. (Quote by - Robert Bridges)
Beauty seen is never lost. (Quote by - Whittier)
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. (Quote by - Martin Buxbaum)
He hath a daily beauty in his life. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
If I could write the beauty of your eyes, and in fresh numbers number all your graces, the age to come would say, This poet lies; such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Pretty can only get prettier, but beauty compounds itself. (Quote by - J. Kennedy Ellington)
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. (Quote by - Jacqueline Bisset)
A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis less of earth than heaven. (Quote by - Edward Coate Pinkney)
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity. (Quote by - Plato)
It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Beauty is the gift of God. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Too late I loved Thee, O Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! Too late I loved thee! And Lo! Thou wert within, and I abroad searching for Thee. Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. (Quote by - Florenz Ziegfeld)
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
Things are beautiful if you love them. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness. (Quote by - Alan Seeger)
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose. (Quote by - Henry Austin Dobson)
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
The night is beautiful, so the faces of my people, the stars are beautiful, so the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. (Quote by - Lamgston Hughes)
Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice. (Quote by - R. U. Johnson)
Beauty and folly are old companions. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar. (Quote by - Anthony Euwer)
I have gazed at your beauty from the beginning of my existence. (Quote by - Rabindranathn Tagore)
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: if the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Virtue lives when Beauty dies. (Quote by - H. K. White)
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies. (Quote by - Edward Moore)
Beauty without expression tires. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Beauty is a short-lived reign. (Quote by - Socrates)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Quote by - Margaret Hungerford)
Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. (Quote by - John Vance Cheney)
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Exuberance is beauty. (Quote by - William Blake)
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
Beauty's of a fading nature-has a season, and is gone! (Quote by - Burns)
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain. (Quote by - Old Testament: Proverbs)
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. (Quote by - Ashley Smith)
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
Beauty is a fading flower. (Quote by - Old Testament: Isaiah)
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, we paint the semblance of a form divine. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. (Quote by - Spenser)
The Beautiful! It is beauty seen with the eye of the soul. (Quote by - Joubert)
A lovely Lady garmented in light from her own beauty. (Quote by - Shelley)
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use. (Quote by - Ovid)
I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice. (Quote by - Rousseau)
I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour. (Quote by - William Bolitho)
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. (Quote by - Johann von Goeth)
He thought it happier to be dead, to die for Beauty, than live for bread. (Quote by - Emerson)
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. (Quote by - Roy R. Gilson)
Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I! (Quote by - Pierre Jean de Beranger)
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. (Quote by - Charles Reade)
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
When Nature's happiest touch could add no more, heaven lent an angel's beauty to her face. (Quote by - W. S. Mickle)
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old. (Quote by - Frank Kafka)
In architecture, the beauty is in the line and design. In painting, it is in the form and color. In works of fine art, it is the craftsmanship. Possession of these things brings pleasure to some, but the real joy comes from the enjoyment of their beauty. (Quote by - William Ross)
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)
Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent. (Quote by - Old saying)
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty. (Quote by - Hazrat Inayat Khan)
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun. (Quote by - E. B. Browning)
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. (Quote by - John Muir)
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. (Quote by - Karl Lagerfeld)
Beauty is the flower of chastity. (Quote by - Zeno)
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? (Quote by - W. B. Yeats)
The flowers anew returning seasons bring but beauty faded ha no second spring. (Quote by - Ambrose Philips)
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world. (Quote by - Martin Farquhar Tupper)
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty. (Quote by - Congo)
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? (Quote by - Kotomichi)
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. (Quote by - Ralph Ellison)
The best part of beauty is that which a picture cannot express. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age. (Quote by - John Cotton)
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. (Quote by - Cervantes)
The Nature of This Flower is to bloom. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. (Quote by - Tertullian)
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
Not that which is great is beautiful, but that which is beautiful is great. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Beauty, madam, pleases the eyes only; sweetness of disposition charms the soul. (Quote by - Voltaire)
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)
I love beautiful things, beauty in anything, beauty in an athlete, or just getting up very early in the morning for rehearsals. (Quote by - Jesse Norman)
Love is a great beautifier. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside. (Quote by - Duke Ellington)
Everything on earth (is) beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end. (Quote by - Emerson)
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. (Quote by - Ivan Panin)
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. (Quote by - Lew Wallace)
The stranger took my beauty and placed it in my hand loveliness beyond the jewels of a throne. (Quote by - Wole Soyinka)
Beauty is the lover's gift. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Beauty is not caused. It is. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow, Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightning. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
The ornament of a beauty is suspect, a crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen. (Quote by - Young)
Let the beauty we love be what we do. (Quote by - Rumi)
Trust not too much to that enchanting face: beauty's a charm; but soon the charm will pass. (Quote by - Vergil)
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. (Quote by - George Brossin Méré)
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! (Quote by - Dryden)
Beauty is a form of Genius-is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. (Quote by - Horace)
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God. (Quote by - Wordsworth)
The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue. (Quote by - Emerson)
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe. (Quote by - Gabriela Mistral)
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty, I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee. Life a Duty (Quote by - Ellen Sturgis Hooper)
Nothing is more moving than beauty which is unaware of itself. (Quote by - Robert Mallet)
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe. (Quote by - Gabriela Mistral)
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. (Quote by - John Dryden)
We fly to beauty as an asylum From the terrors of finite nature. (Quote by - Emerson)
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving breath when you are gone. (Quote by - Paul Acquasanta)
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony. (Quote by - Mary Baker Eddy)
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. (Quote by - Rosalind Russell)
When the candles are all out all women are fair. (Quote by - Plutarch)
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
'Twas then her beauties first enslaved my heart-those glittering pearls and ruby lips, whose kiss was sweeter far than honey to the taste. (Quote by - Antar)
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens. (Quote by - Rumi)
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Beauty pleases the eyes only; Sweetness of disposition charms the soul. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty. (Quote by - Ovid)
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations of words and in all kinds of music, for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that life themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect and there is the beauty of the virtues. (Quote by - Plotinus)
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision. (Quote by - Plato)
When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go. (Quote by - Timothy Ray Miller)
We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us. And so paradoxically, the more we turn toward beauty, the more we turn away from it. For it is in the opposite direction. We turn outward and it is within. (Quote by - Ernesto Cardenal)
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
Beauty is a natural superiority. (Quote by - Plato)
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. (Quote by - Marie Stopes)
Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. (Quote by - Grey Livingston)
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. (Quote by - James Allen)
It was Martin, more than anyone, who exposed the hidden beauty of black people in the South, and caused us to look again at the land our fathers and mothers knew. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. (Quote by - Rabindrath Tagore)
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have knowndefeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. (Quote by - Elizabeth Kubler Ross)
The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Great is the strife between beauty and modesty. (Quote by - Ovid)
And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful. (Quote by - John Bunyan)
Beauty without grace pleases, but does not captivate, being like bait without a hook. (Quote by - Capiton)
Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye. (Quote by - Grey Livingston)
The inappropriate cannot be beautiful. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace. (Quote by - Homer)
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors. (Quote by - Aime Cesaire)
Grave is all beauty, Solemn is joy. (Quote by - William Watson)
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein)
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. (Quote by - John Keats)
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Beauty should be kind, as well as charm. (Quote by - George Granville)
I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face who view, They should not ask if truth be there. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. (Quote by - Petrarch)
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary. (Quote by - Emerson)
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. (Quote by - Lord Shaftesbury)
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. (Quote by - Edgar Allen Poe)
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait. (Quote by - Capito)
Thou who hast The fatal gist of beauty. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music; what can one say more? (Quote by - George Eliot)
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. (Quote by - Leon Battista Alberti)
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years. (Quote by - Ovid)
Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. (Quote by - Tennyson)
Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her. (Quote by - Kinky Friedman)
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. (Quote by - Dryden)
Beauty is the promise of happiness. (Quote by - Stendha)
