Quotes about beauty

"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty   

"The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty   

"Beauty rests on necessities."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty   

"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty   

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"Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty   

"Beauty is the pilot of the young soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty
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"A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna."

Forster, Edward M. on beauty   

"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."

Frye, Northrop on beauty
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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on beauty
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on beauty
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

Gibbon, Edward on beauty
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"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."

Godard, Jean-Luc on beauty   

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on beauty
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"Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on beauty   

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on beauty
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"There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on beauty   

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."

Gracian, Baltasar on beauty
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"The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy."

Greville, Lord on beauty   

"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

Halifax, Edward F. on beauty
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"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me."

Heller, Elizabeth on beauty   

"There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise."

Hemans, Felicia D. on beauty   

"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying."

Herrick, Robert on beauty
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"Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on beauty   

"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."

Horace on beauty
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"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant."

Horton, Doug on beauty
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"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."

Howard, Vernon on beauty   

"Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense."

Hubbard, Kin on beauty
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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

Hughes, Langston on beauty
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"Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty."

Huxley, Aldous on beauty
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"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."

Huxley, Aldous on beauty   

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

Immermann on beauty
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"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well."

Ionesco, Eugene on beauty   

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing..."

Keats, John on beauty
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Keats, John on beauty
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"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?"

Kerr, Jean on beauty   

"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."

Klee, Paul on beauty
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"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers."

Klee, Paul on beauty