Beauty Quotes

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” John Muir

 

“Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.” George W. Russell

 

“I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.” Author Unknown

 

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” Rabindrath Tagore

 

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” Kahlil Gibran

 

“Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black colouring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.” Tertullian

 

“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.” Ninon de L’Enclos

 

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.” Martin Buxbaum

 

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” Leo Tolstoy

 

“In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” Christopher Morley

 

“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.” Simone Weil

 

“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!” Logan Pearsall Smith

 

“The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.” Author Unknown

 

“Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.” Roseanne

 

“I don’t like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.” Karl Lagerfeld

 

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

“Beauty and folly are generally companions.” Baltasar Gracian

 

“Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.” Grey Livingston

 

“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.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.” George Eliot

“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” Johann von Goethe

 

“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.” Karl Kraus

 

“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.” John Ruskin

 

“Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.” Florenz Ziegfeld

 

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.” John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851

 

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” Stendhal

 

“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

 

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” Walt Whitman

 

“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

“Beauty… is the shadow of God on the universe.” Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon

 

“Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart.” Nate Dircks

 

“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.” Marie Stopes

 

“Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.” Grey Livingston

 

“Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.” Pablo Picasso

 

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?” Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

 

“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.” Saint Augustine

 

“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” Rosalind Russell

 

“Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.” Garrison Keillor