Beauty Quotes

"Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation."

"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

"Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face."

"Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness"

"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

"Her beauty makesThis vault a feasting presence full of light."

"What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing"

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night"

"Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty"

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"

"Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty."

"Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty."

"The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time"

"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns."

"Beauty’s ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death’s pale flag is not advanced there."

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture"

"Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current."

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."