Beauty Quotes

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

To love beauty is to see light.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.