Quotes about beauty

"Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest."

Quincey, Thomas De on beauty   

"Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on beauty   

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."

Ray, John on beauty   

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

Reade, Charles on beauty
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"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her."

Rimbaud, Arthur on beauty   

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

Robbins, Tim on beauty
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"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

Rostand, Jean on beauty   

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on beauty
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"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."

Sackville-West, Vita on beauty   

"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."

Sand, George on beauty
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"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."

Santayana, George on beauty   

"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."

Sappho on beauty
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"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on beauty
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"If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on beauty
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"The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found."

SeVigne, Marquise De on beauty   

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still."

Shakespeare, William on beauty
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"Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -"

Shakespeare, William on beauty   

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

Shaw, George Bernard on beauty
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"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

Socrates on beauty   

"What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

Sontag, Susan on beauty   

"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."

Spenser, Edmund on beauty   

"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."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on beauty   

"To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty."

Steele, Sir Richard on beauty   

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

Stendhal, Henri B. on beauty   

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing."

Stopes, Marie Carmichael on beauty
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"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web."

Teale, Edwin Way on beauty   

"We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty."

Teresa of Avila, St. on beauty   

"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."

Thompson, Roy on beauty
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"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on beauty
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"Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come"

Unknown, Source on beauty   

"The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think."

Unknown, Source on beauty
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"If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it."

Upham on beauty   

"Trust not too much to an enchanting face."

Virgil on beauty
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"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

Weil, Simone on beauty   

"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

Wey, Hermann on beauty   

"Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on beauty   

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly."

Wilde, Oscar on beauty
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"Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

Wilde, Oscar on beauty