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Best beauty quotes and aphorisms, a collection of great sentences and ideas by famous authors and artists on the most attractive and mysterious topic of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sublime aesthetic beauty of a well-photographed face loses its magic in a trivial, fast-paced video. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and we admire it so much because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.<\/span>
\nRainer Maria Rilke<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.<\/span>
\nSaying<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.<\/span>
\nJoseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.<\/span>
\nJoseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.<\/span>
\nJames Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

I am desperate and vulnerable… I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.<\/span>
\nFaye Dunaway<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.<\/span>
\nPaulina Porizkova<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is beauty and beauty is truth, that is all you need to know to be a perfect stupid.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.<\/span>
\nPriscilla Presley<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re considered a beauty, it’s hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.<\/span>
\nCybil Shepherd<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty begins the moment we decide to be ourselves.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.<\/span>
\nFather Andre<\/span><\/p>\n

They say beauty will save us, but in the meantime, what can we do with all the filth that surrounds us?<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.<\/span>
\nJean Anouilh<\/span><\/p>\n

Ask a toad what beauty is, and he’ll tell you it’s the female toad.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Things are beautiful if you love them.<\/span>
\nJean Anouilh<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty – excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable – should persist after the beauty was gone.<\/span>
\nMary Arnim<\/span><\/p>\n

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Beauty is eternal and has the power to lift the human spirit beyond earthly cares.<\/span>
\nJohn Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bancroft<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading various aphorisms by great authors on beauty, one can easily realize the enormous stupidities of which the overestimated human intellect is capable.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bancroft<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.<\/span>
\nTyra Banks<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.<\/span>
\nGeorges Bataille<\/span><\/p>\n

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.<\/span>
\nCharles Baudelaire<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn’t help your five-iron if you’re pretty.<\/span>
\nLaura Baugh<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.<\/span>
\nWalter Benjamin<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success.<\/span>
\nIngrid Bergman<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.<\/span>
\nAl Bernstein<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]<\/span>
\nHalle Berry<\/span><\/p>\n

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.<\/span>
\nJacqueline Bisset<\/span><\/p>\n

Exuberance is beauty.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

By now I am nothing but a tormented intellect, torn between the desires of beauty, love, hedonism, friendship, ecstasy, dissolution, and nihilism, my ultimate nirvana.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.<\/span>
\nMarguerite Gardiner<\/span><\/p>\n

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.<\/span>
\nJohn Christian Bovee<\/span><\/p>\n

Without beauty, truth, justice, and goodness would lose their meaning. Beauty gives value to our existence and inspires us to pursue higher ideals.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the sensible manifestation of the idea of good. <\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.<\/span>
\nJohn Christian Bovee<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.<\/span>
\nKay Boyle<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.<\/span>
\nAndre Breton<\/span><\/p>\n

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.<\/span>
\nEdward G. Bulwer-Lytton<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the sensible manifestation of the idea of good shit. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown Via Plato<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.<\/span>
\nJane Welsh Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

All kinds of beauty don’t inspire love; there is a kind that pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.<\/span>
\nMiguel De Cervantes<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.<\/span>
\nJulia Child<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

The torture of retaliation by contrast means that the closer one gets to the vitality of death, the more one becomes strangely fascinated by the knowledge of youthful beauty.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.<\/span>
\nDante Alighieri<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty, after three days, is as boring as virtue.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the best letter of recommendation.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s leave beautiful women to men without imagination.<\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!<\/span>
\nBessie Delaney<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is not caused. It is.<\/span>
\nEmily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.<\/span>
\nMarlene Dietrich<\/span><\/p>\n

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is why is it beautiful?<\/span>
\nAnnie Dillard<\/span><\/p>\n

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.<\/span>
\nJohn Kenneth Galbraith<\/span><\/p>\n

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the “dear deceit” of beauty.<\/span>
\nGeorge Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty alone persuades the eyes of men without the need of advocates.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty and health are the principal sources of happiness.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

Youth without beauty still has appeal; beauty without youth has none.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is everything, perhaps also because it unconsciously makes us understand that in the end, nothing remains.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing has a greater influence on a man’s behavior than his outward appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in whether or not he is attractive. <\/span>
\nLev Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Only that which is truly beautiful is of no use; everything useful is ugly, because it expresses some need, and man’s needs are as ignoble and disgusting as his poor and infirm nature.<\/span>
\nTh\u00e9ophile Gautier<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is truth, truth beauty: that is all \/ We know on earth, \/ And all we need to know.<\/span>
\nJohn Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the definition of beauty; humor is a branch of philosophy concerned with the definition of stupidity. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty rests on necessities.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.<\/span>
\nEdmond and Jules De Goncourt<\/span><\/p>\n

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit.<\/span>
\nDianne Feinstein<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nEdward M. Forster<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is a light that illuminates the soul. <\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust is good, mistrust is better; especially if you’re dealing with the guise of beauty and wealth, for beneath such guise usually lurks the demon of power, generally suggestive and attractive, but ultimately always illusory, hypocritical, decadent, and disappointing.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty will save the world.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone… The human self defines itself and grows through love AND work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.<\/span>
\nBetty Friedan<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nNorthrop Frye<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.<\/span>
\nR. Buckminster Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.<\/span>
\nEdward Gibbon<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.<\/span>
\nKahlil Gibran<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.<\/span>
\nKahlil Gibran<\/span><\/p>\n

Concern for one’s own image – this is man’s fatal immaturity. It’s so difficult to be indifferent to one’s own image. Such indifference is beyond human strength. Man only attains it after death.<\/span>
\nMilan Kundera<\/span><\/p>\n

May my words destroy the sublime harmony of geometry; only then will beauty no longer have meaning and the world become more serene.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the symbol of moral goodness.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJean-Luc Godard<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is arbitrary: beauty is something more real and more independent of taste and opinion.<\/span>
\nJean de La Bruy\u00e8re<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all the definitions of beauty I’ve found in various works of philosophy, art, aesthetics, etc., I fondly recall the simplest one: we find something beautiful in proportion to its suitability for a function.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.<\/span>
\nBarbara Gordon<\/span><\/p>\n

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.<\/span>
\nBaltasar Gracian<\/span><\/p>\n

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.<\/span>
\nLangston Hughes<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nLord Greville<\/span><\/p>\n

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.<\/span>
\nEdward F. Halifax<\/span><\/p>\n

How long can you be cute?<\/span>
\nGoldie Hawn<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Heller<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.<\/span>
\nFelicia D. Hemans<\/span><\/p>\n

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.<\/span>
\nRobert Herrick<\/span><\/p>\n

Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary, with a conviction that a sudden, arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void, produce a loss.<\/span>
\nJenny Heynrichs<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.<\/span>
\nOliver Wendell Holmes<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.<\/span>
\nHorace<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is variable; ugliness is constant.<\/span>
\nDoug Horton<\/span><\/p>\n

By cultivating the beautiful, we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.<\/span>
\nVernon Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is in the light of the heart.<\/span>
\nKhalil Gibran<\/span><\/p>\n

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…<\/span>
\nJohn Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.<\/span>
\nMargaret Wolfe Hungerford<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is worse than wine: it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.<\/span>
\nImmermann<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nEugene Ionesco<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas?<\/span>
\nJean Kerr<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nPaul Klee<\/span><\/p>\n

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.<\/span>
\nJohn Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.<\/span>
\nPaul Klee<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms – will it return to my body when they scatter?<\/span>
\nKotomichi<\/span><\/p>\n

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.<\/span>
\nKarl Kraus<\/span><\/p>\n

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.<\/span>
\nChristopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.<\/span>
\nMichel Eyquem De Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

The most beautiful thing in the world is the conjunction of learning and inspiration.<\/span>
\nAlice Wanda Landowski<\/span><\/p>\n

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.<\/span>
\nNinon De L’Enclos<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.<\/span>
\nSir John Lubbock<\/span><\/p>\n

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.<\/span>
\nJudith Martin<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all.<\/span>
\nW. Somerset Maugham<\/span><\/p>\n

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.<\/span>
\nW. Somerset Maugham<\/span><\/p>\n

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.<\/span>
\nFelix Mendelssohn<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.<\/span>
\nGeorge B. Mere<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.<\/span>
\nMichelangelo<\/span><\/p>\n

How goodness heightens beauty!<\/span>
\nHannah More<\/span><\/p>\n

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.<\/span>
\nChristopher Morley<\/span><\/p>\n

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.<\/span>
\nChristopher Morley<\/span><\/p>\n

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.<\/span>
\nLewis Mumford<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.<\/span>
\nRobert Nathan<\/span><\/p>\n

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.<\/span>
\nEdward A. Navajo<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is whatever gives joy.<\/span>
\nHugh Nibley<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.<\/span>
\nFrank O’Hara<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is our weapon against nature. By it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.<\/span>
\nCamille Paglia<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.<\/span>
\nBlaise Pascal<\/span><\/p>\n

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Philips<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!<\/span>
\nPablo Picasso<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.<\/span>
\nPindar<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.<\/span>
\nPlotinus<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own – even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.<\/span>
\nKatherine Anne Porter<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the stillbirth of suffering; every woman knows that.<\/span>
\nEmily Prager<\/span><\/p>\n

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Crooked logs make straight fires.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Every eye forms its own fancy.<\/span>
\nIrish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.<\/span>
\nPersian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.<\/span>
\nPortuguese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

It is beautiful to do nothing and then rest afterwards.<\/span>
\nSpanish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles. What is that? It is the sun going to his rest.<\/span>
\nThomas De Quincey<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nSir Walter Raleigh<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohn Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is power. A smile is its sword.<\/span>
\nCharles Reade<\/span><\/p>\n

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.<\/span>
\nArthur Rimbaud<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.<\/span>
\nTim Robbins<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.<\/span>
\nJean Rostand<\/span><\/p>\n

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.<\/span>
\nLiz Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the beauty we love be what we do.<\/span>
\nJalal-Uddin Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.<\/span>
\nJohn Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.<\/span>
\nJohn Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aphorisms<\/a>
Aphorisms and quotes about beauty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.<\/span>
\nVita Sackville-West<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nGeorge Sand<\/span><\/p>\n

Not always the fanciest cake that’s there Is the best to eat!<\/span>
\nMargaret Elizabeth Sangster<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.<\/span>
\nGeorge Santayana<\/span><\/p>\n

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too.<\/span>
\nSappho<\/span><\/p>\n

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.<\/span>
\nSappho<\/span><\/p>\n

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.<\/span>
\nSusan Sontag<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJohann Friedrich Von Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.<\/span>
\nJohann Friedrich Von Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.<\/span>
\nMarquise De SeVigne<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is all very well at first sight, but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.<\/span>
\nMarsha Sinetar<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

It is foolish to desire beauty. People of good sense never desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind is well cultivated and the heart well disposed, no one will ever care about outward appearance.<\/span>
\nAnne Bront\u00eb<\/span><\/p>\n

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.<\/span>
\nEdmund Spenser<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nBaruch Benedict de Spinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!<\/span>
\nSt. Augustine<\/span><\/p>\n

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.<\/span>
\nSir Richard Steele<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is the promise of happiness.<\/span>
\nHenri B. Stendhal<\/span><\/p>\n

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.<\/span>
\nMarie Carmichael Stopes<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.<\/span>
\nEdwin Way Teale<\/span><\/p>\n

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.<\/span>
\nRoy Thompson<\/span><\/p>\n

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.<\/span>
\nCount Leo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.<\/span>
\nLaura Towne<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.<\/span>
\nVirgil<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.<\/span>
\nSimone Weil<\/span><\/p>\n

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.<\/span>
\nMae West<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.<\/span>
\nMae West<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nHermann Wey<\/span><\/p>\n

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.<\/span>
\nWalter Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty seen is never lost; God’s colors all are fast.<\/span>
\nJohn Greenleaf Whittier<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.<\/span>
\nNaomi Wolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.<\/span>
\nMary Wollstonecraft<\/span><\/p>\n

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbidden to speak, that once familiar word.<\/span>
\nThomas Haynes Bayly<\/span><\/p>\n

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty and grace command the world.<\/span>
\nPark Benjamin<\/span><\/p>\n

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.<\/span>
\nBhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.<\/span>
\nRobert Burns<\/span><\/p>\n

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.<\/span>
\nPatrick Campbell<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes on beauty and grace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He had a face like a blessing.<\/span>
\nMiguel De Cervantes<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.<\/span>
\nMarquis De Custine<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.<\/span>
\nAlighieri, Dante<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.<\/span>
\nJonathan Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs.<\/span>
\nR. P. C. Hanson<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?<\/span>
\nHenry Harland<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.<\/span>
\nDoug Horton<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.<\/span>
\nJoseph Joubert<\/span><\/p>\n

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

What grace is to the body, good sense is to the mind.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.<\/span>
\nBo Lozoff<\/span><\/p>\n

The grace of God, says Luther, “is like a flying summer shower.” It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.<\/span>
\nAlexander Maclaren<\/span><\/p>\n

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.<\/span>
\nMark L. Mika<\/span><\/p>\n

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.<\/span>
\nJohann Friedrich Von Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.<\/span>
\nRobert Louis Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.<\/span>
\nCharles A. Stoddard<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.<\/span>
\nBenjamin B. Warfield<\/span><\/p>\n

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

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