Beauty Quotes

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Vincent McNa

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoi

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Miss Piggy

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

John Keats, -

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Barbara Colorose

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003

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.

George Bancroft

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

Sir Francis Bacon

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne