Beauty Quotes

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.

Thomas Campbell

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

Marquis de Sade

Beauty fades; dumb is forever.

Judge Judy, From her book "Beauty fades; dumb is forever".

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

Thomas Jefferson

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Unknown

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

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Donald Culross Peattie

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Democritus

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Turkish Prove

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

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis Dille

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory