Beauty Quotes

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she found distinctly unappealing.

Erin Morgenstern

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

The beauty of love is that it demands to be two sided, otherwise its nothing but another obsession.

The most beautiful rainbows are sometimes formed in the ugliest storms.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful.

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.

Timothy Ray Miller

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Lady Blessington

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon de l'Enclos

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Beauty is truth truth beauty.

She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes 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.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.

Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.

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.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.

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.

Voltaire

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

W Somerset Maugham

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.

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.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me?

Oscar Hammerstein

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

W Somerset Maugham

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Leon Battista Alberti

Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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.

William Bolitho

The excellence of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeables evaporate from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Hungerford

Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

Rumi

Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.

Goethe

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

Lord Shaftesbury

I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Francis Quarles

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty without expression tires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Everything is nothing, but the beauty of nothing is everthing

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