Beauty Quotes
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.Sallust, The War with Catiline
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
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
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.Mary Schmich
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.Anonymous
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.Demades
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.Kahlil Gibran
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
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.Rachel Carson
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.Vincent McNa
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
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember, that if thou 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; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.John F. 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
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
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
