Beauty Quotes

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

Donald Culross Peattie

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

Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

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

John Keats, -

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Arthur Cayley

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest 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 Alcot

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04

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

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

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.

Louise Bogan

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Thomas Tusse

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

Phyllis

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.

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

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Barbara Colorose

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

Mary Schmich

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

D. H. Lawrence

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

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

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

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.

Oscar Wilde

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Alighieri Dante