Virtue is beauty. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty's a blossom. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is a frail good. [ Ovid ]

Fancy surpasses beauty. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is soon blasted. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is always queen. [ Joseph II ]

Beauty will buy no beef. [ Proverb ]

Beauty doth varnish age. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty is Nature's brag. [ Milton ]

Beauty is no inheritance. [ Proverb ]

Thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty. [ Byron ]

Beauty lives with kindness. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty, in woman, is power. [ Rotrou ]

Beauty is never a delusion. [ Hawthorne ]

Beauty can inspire miracles. [ Beaconsfield ]

Beauty draws more than oxen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How goodness heightens beauty! [ Hannah More ]

Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live. [ Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland ]

Love is the harvest of beauty.

Hath the spirit of all beauty
Kissed you in the path of duty? [ Anna Katharine Green ]

Poetry is the breath of beauty. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Beauty is a patent of nobility. [ G. Schwab ]

The beautiful is always severe. [ Segur ]

Beauty without expression tires. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Beauty allays all angry feeling. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. [ Socrates ]

A lovely girl is above all rank. [ Charles Buxton ]

Accuracy is essential to beauty. [ Emerson ]

Beauty without virtue is a curse. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is a delightful prejudice. [ Theocritus ]

The beautiful is never plentiful. [ Emerson ]

Virtue is the beauty of the soul. [ Proverb ]

Refinement is superior to beauty. [ Lascaris ]

I never saw an eye so bright,
And yet so soft as hers;
It sometimes swam in liquid light.
And sometimes swam in tears;
It seemed a beauty set apart
For softness and for signs. [ Mrs. Welby ]

Wrinkles are beauty's death-lines. [ J. L. Basford ]

Beauty is the flowering of virtue. [ Gr. Proverb ]

Modest humility is beauty's crown. [ Schiller ]

Alas! that dreams are only dreams!
That fancy cannot give
A lasting beauty to those forms.
Which scarce a moment live! [ Rufus Dawes ]

Newness hath an evanescent beauty. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Beauty draws us with a single hair. [ Pope ]

Beauty, the fading rainbow's pride. [ Halleck ]

Beauty is a possession not our own. [ Bion ]

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye.
Love half regrets to kiss it dry. [ Byron ]

Beauty is the subject of a blemish. [ Proverb ]

In beauty, faults conspicuous grow;
The smallest speck is seen on snow. [ Gay ]

Beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He builded better than he knew -
The conscious stone to beauty grew. [ Emerson ]

Heat cannot be separated from fire,
Or beauty from the eternal. [ Dante ]

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting. [ Goethe ]

Grace will last, beauty will blast. [ Proverb ]

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. [ Gilfillan ]

Beauty and folly go often together. [ French Proverb ]

Beauty and grace command the world. [ Park Benjamin ]

And all the carnal beauty of my wife
Is but skin-deep. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

Born to excel, and to command!
As by transcendent beauty to attract
All eyes, so by pre-eminence of soul
To rule all hearts. [ Congreve ]

Health and cheerfulness make beauty. [ Cervantes ]

Grace is more beautiful than beauty. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Expression is the mystery of beauty. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

What would not I give to wander
Where my old companions dwell?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! [ T. H. Bayly, Isle of Beauty ]

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. [ Channing ]

Beauty carries its dower in its face. [ Danish Proverb ]

The blushing beauty of a modest maid. [ Dryden ]

The beautiful attracts the beautiful. [ Leigh Hunt ]

He whom nature thus bereaves,
Is ever fancy's favourite child;
For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

The fringe of the garment of the Lord. [ Bailey ]

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. [ Byron, She Walks in Beauty ]

Goodness is beauty in its best estate. [ Marlowe ]

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall.
And most divinely fair. [ Tennyson ]

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. [ Charles Reade ]

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost. [ Shakespeare ]

A queen devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. [ Victor Hugo ]

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. [ Petronius Arbiter ]

A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay. [ Homer ]

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Mortal beauty stings while it delights. [ Bovee ]

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare! [ Homer ]

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. [ Shakespeare ]

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved.
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved. [ Wordsworth ]

Rare is the union of beauty and virtue. [ Juvenal ]

Her overpowering presence made you feel
It would not be idolatry to kneel. [ Byron ]

That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty - transient flower. [ Goldsmith ]

Beauty is a good letter of introduction. [ German Proverb ]

O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature.
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One. [ Tegner ]

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire! [ Bovee ]

If eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Emerson ]

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. [ Henry Hart Milman ]

Not more the rose, the queen of flowers,
Outblushes all the bloom of bower,
Than she unrivalled grace discloses;
The sweetest rose, where all are roses. [ Moore ]

The beautiful seems right
By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness. [ E. B. Browning ]

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. [ Willmott ]

Trust not too much to an enchanting face. [ Virgil ]

Different minds
Incline to different objects; one pursues
The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild;
Another sighs for harmony and grace,
And gentlest beauty. [ Akenside ]

The body charms because the soul is seen. [ Young ]

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. [ Michael Angelo ]

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty -
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? [ Ellen Sturgis Hooper ]

Beauty provokes thieves sooner than gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty, when unadorned, adorned the most. [ Thomson ]

There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Simplicity is beauty; simplicity is power. [ Halleck ]

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never. [ Henry Home ]

She that is born a beauty is half married. [ Ouida ]

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty. [ Junius ]

Oh, how this spring of life resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day.
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And, by and by, a cloud takes all away! [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty is potent, but money is more potent. [ Proverb ]

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. [ George Eliot ]

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. [ Campbell ]

Beauty is an accidental and transient good. [ Richardson ]

All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. [ Hazlitt ]

Mark her majestic fabric; she's a temple
Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine;
Her soul's the Deity that lodges there;
Nor is the pile unworthy of the God. [ Dryden ]

Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. [ Keats ]

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty. [ Bruyere ]

Her polished limbs,
Veiled in a simple robe, their best attire,
Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. [ Thomson ]

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all. [ Pope ]

Ornament is but the gilded shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. [ William Shakespeare ]

To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. [ Bryant ]

Beauty's choicest mirror is an admiring eye. [ J. L. Basford ]

Do not idolatrize; beauty's a flower,
Which springs and withers almost in an hour. [ Wm. Smith ]

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh world, as God has made it! All is beauty:
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. [ Browning ]

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty. [ Curran ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty, violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
Or Cytherea's breath. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty too rich for use; for earth too dear. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]

Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another. [ Pope ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim.
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength - a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one! [ William Shakespeare ]

O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem.
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. [ William Shakespeare ]

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive through a happy place. [ Wordsworth ]

His steps are beauty, and His presence light. [ Montgomery ]

The rosy-fingered morn did there disclose
Her beauty, ruddy as a blushing bride,
Gilding the marigold, painting the rose,
With Indian chrysolites her cheeks were dyed. [ Baron ]

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [ Bovee ]

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current, and the good thereof
Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. [ Milton ]

Prophets of fragrance, beauty, joy, and song. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

A woman without beauty knows but half of life. [ Mme. de Montaran ]

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

'Tis the eternal law.
That first in beauty should be first in might. [ Keats ]

Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Emerson ]

Beauty can give an edge to the bluntest sword. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Such harmony in motion, speech and air,
That without fairness, she was more than fair. [ Crabbe ]

Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit. [ Proverb ]

Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world;
The health, the soul, the beauty most divine;
A mask of gold hides all deformities;
Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. [ Decker ]

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess.
The might - the majesty of Loveliness? [ Byron ]

Thus was beauty sent from heaven,
The lovely ministress of truth and good,
In this dark world; for truth and good are one,
And beauty dwells in them and they in her
With like participation. [ Akenside ]

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. [ Lyttelton ]

O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

Fair eldest child of love, thou spotless night!
Empress of silence, and the queen of sleep;
Who, with thy black cheek's pure complexion,
Mak'st lovers' eyes enamoured of thy beauty. [ Marlowe ]

Beauty without grace is a violet without smell. [ Proverb ]

A flower that dies when first it begins to bud. [ William Shakespeare ]

A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. [ Byron ]

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with it. [ William Shakespeare ]

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. [ Campbell ]

Swift, speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,
Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. [ Samuel Daniel ]

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep. [ Ralph Venning ]

Heaven, the perfection of all that can
Be said, of thought, riches, delight or harmony.
Health, beauty; and all those not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal. [ Shirley ]

Beauty? thou pretty plaything! dear deceit,
That steals so softly over the stripling's heart
And gives it a new pulse unknown before! [ Blair ]

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. [ Mendelssohn ]

Venus, thy eternal sway all the race of men obey. [ Euripides ]

Over the greatest beauty hangs the greatest ruin. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Delicacy is to affection what grace is to beauty. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Woman is the symbol of moral and physical beauty. [ T. Gautier ]

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Beauty is but a flower which wrinkles will devour. [ Thomas Nash ]

Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook baited. [ Proverb ]

If I could write the beauty of your eyes.
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]

Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located. [ Madame Sevigne ]

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. [ French Proverb ]

The heart groweth tender in the presence of beauty. [ S. Neftanish ]

In days of yore nothing was holy but the beautiful. [ Schiller ]

No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears,
No gem that, twinkling, hangs from beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn.
Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks
For other's woe, down virtue's manly cheeks. [ Darwin ]

Beauty is God's handwriting, - a wayside sacrament. [ Milton ]

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. [ Socrates ]

If Jack's in love, he is no judge of Jill's beauty. [ Proverb ]

The poet's pen is the true divining rod
Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling;
Bringing to light and use, else hid from all.
The many sweet clear sources which we have
Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms;
And marks the variations of all mind
As does the needle. [ Bailey ]

Struck blind with beauty! shot with a woman's smile. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant. [ Joubert ]

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good! [ Whittier ]

Lightness of carriage and beauty are old companions. [ Proverb ]

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye. [ Prince de Ligne ]

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. [ Whittier ]

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. [ Luther ]

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. [ Beaconsfield ]

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. [ John Keats, Endymion ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion. [ Lady Montagu ]

The criterion of true beauty is that
It increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. [ Greville ]

Such another peerless queen only could her mirror show. [ Emerson ]

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. [ Bancroft ]

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty. [ A. Karr ]

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary. [ Emerson ]

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. [ Saadi ]

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue. [ Ruffini ]

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. [ Talleyrand ]

Beauty is but skin deep; within is filth and putrefaction. [ Proverb ]

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest. [ Bulwer ]

Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year, it is well. [ Rev. T. Adam ]

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting. [ Johnson ]

Beauty is a beam from heaven that dazzles blind our reason. [ Campbell ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? [ Thackeray ]

Beauty is a quality of the heart. It is more than skin deep.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. [ Ruskin ]

Beauty is the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem.

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

The plainer the dress, with greater luster does beauty appear. [ Lord Halifax ]

That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. [ Bacon ]

Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person. [ Virgil ]

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. [ Shaftesbury ]

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. [ Joseph Joubert ]

There is something so moving in the very image of weeping beauty. [ Steele ]

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. [ Shakespeare ]

Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes plainest. [ Sterne ]

It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue. [ Bacon ]

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

The inconvenience or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater? [ Madame Necker ]

Half light, half shade, she stood a sight to make an old man young. [ Tennyson ]

It is useless to have youth without beauty, or beauty without youth. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Beauty itself doth itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tell a woman she's a beauty, and the devil will tell her so ten times. [ Proverb ]

A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows to beauty. [ Bryant ]

Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? [ William Shakespeare ]

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. [ Goethe ]

The fine tints and fluent curves which constitute beauty of character. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

In the recognition of beauty, the eye takes the most delight in color. [ Addison ]

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. [ Bacon ]

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. [ Amiel ]

To give pain is the tyranny, - to make happy the true empire of beauty. [ Steele ]

She has less beauty than her picture hath, and truly not much more wit. [ Proverb ]

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind. [ Juvenal ]

Oesser taught me that the ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. [ Goethe ]

Handsomeness is the more animal excellence, beauty the more imaginative. [ Hare ]

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. [ Ouida ]

There is no torture that a woman would not suffer to enhance her beauty. [ Montaigne ]

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. [ Bartol ]

Before decay's effacing fingers have swept the lines where beauty lingers. [ Byron ]

There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. [ Addison ]

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived. [ Erasmus ]

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]

A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. [ Lycurgus ]

She in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. [ Zimmermann ]

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. [ Cicero ]

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. [ Prope rti us ]

Jealousy, thou grand counterpoise for all the transports beauty can inspire! [ Young ]

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm. [ Fontanelle ]

Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. [ William Shakespeare ]

On her cheek blushes the richness of an autumn sky with ever-shifting beauty. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Cherish flowers; a flower plucked from its parent stock soon loses its beauty. [ Catullus ]

Physical beauty in man has become as rare as his moral beauty has always been. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. [ Father Andre ]

Beauty depends more on the movement of the face than the form of the features. [ Mrs. Hall ]

Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. [ Mere ]

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. [ Carlyle ]

A woman forgives the audacity which her beauty has prompted us to be guilty of. [ Lesage ]

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. [ Keats ]

Nature was here so lavish of her store, That she bestowed until she had no more. [ Brown ]

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either. [ Thackeray ]

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting. [ Seneca ]

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of beauty. [ Schlegel ]

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. [ Burke ]

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. [ Bovee ]

Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes from her.

Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners; beauty in the nude and in forms. [ Joubert ]

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. [ Tuckerman ]

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. [ Fuseli ]

Beauty is often but a splendid cloak which conceals the imperfections of the soul. [ T. Gautier ]

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight? [ Seneca ]

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it is itself the greatest distinction. [ Bovee ]

What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace? [ Young ]

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. [ Shairp ]

The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses. [ A. Karr ]

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away. [ Sarah Helen Whitman ]

For beauty is the bait which with delight doth man allure, for to enlarge his kind. [ Spenser ]

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. [ Fielding ]

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man! a world without a sun! [ Campbell ]

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. [ Addison ]

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. [ Joubert ]

Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. [ Christopher Codrington ]

An ugly face and the want of exterior beauty generally increases the interior beauty. [ Chatfield ]

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Beauty is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could preserve from death's hand this their heavenly mould. [ Carew ]

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God. [ Winckelmann ]

It is modesty that places in the feeble hand of beauty the sceptre that commands power. [ Helvetius ]

Expression is of more consequence than shape; it will light up features otherwise heavy. [ Sir C. Bell ]

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, and delves the parallels in beauty's brow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty, frail flower that every season fears, blooms in thy colors for a thousand years. [ Pope ]

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. [ W. Penn ]

Might but the sense of moral evil be as strong in me as is my delight in external beauty! [ Dr. Arnold ]

Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heaven's light vain. [ Pierpont ]

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. [ Shaftesbury ]

Beauty in women is like the flowers in the spring; but virtue is like the stars of Heaven. [ Proverb ]

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! [ Shakespeare ]

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Beauties, whether male or female, are generally the most untractable people of all others. [ Steele ]

True art is but the anti-type of nature, - the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. [ James A. Garfield ]

Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence the caprices of the world. [ X. Doudan ]

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face. [ Montaigne ]

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! [ Barry Cornwall ]

All beauty does not inspire love. Some please the sight without captivating the affections. [ Cervantes ]

That eating canker grief, with wasteful spite, preys on the rosy bloom of youth and beauty. [ Rowe ]

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. [ Joubert ]

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. [ Lamartine ]

Thus was beauty sent from heaven, the lovely ministress of truth and good in this dark world. [ Akenside ]

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! [ Pope ]

In mediaeval art, truth is first, beauty second; in modern art, beauty is first, truth second. [ John Ruskin ]

Wisdom and virtue are the greatest beauty, but it is an advantage to a diamond to be well set. [ Matthew Henry ]

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. [ Plutarch ]

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused. [ Gibbon ]

We gladden our eyes with the beauty of flowers; yet in one short morning they die and pass away. [ Saigiyo ]

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness. [ Fontanelle ]

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. [ Bible ]

Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. [ Steele ]

As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which only lasts while the warmth continues. [ Robert Burton ]

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

Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty. [ Richter ]

What is really beautiful needs no adorning. We do not grind down the pearl upon a polishing stone. [ Sataka ]

The only confidence that one can repose in the most discreet woman is the confidence of her beauty. [ Lemesles ]

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. [ Emerson ]

Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and, like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else. [ Hanway ]

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. [ Ninon de Lenelos ]

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. [ Shenstone ]

Beautiful as sweet! and young as beautiful! and soft as young! and gay as soft! and innocent as gay! [ Young ]

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. [ I. M. Wise ]

Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life. [ Bignicourt ]

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits. [ Erasmus ]

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king. [ Theodore Parker ]

It is a powerful sex; they were too strong for the first, the strongest, and the wisest man that was. [ Howell ]

Where rivulets dance their wayward round, and beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face. [ Wordsworth ]

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. [ Calderon ]

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

A thin aerial veil is drawn over beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. [ Crashaw ]

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty, if you only have a sensibility to beauty? [ Beecher ]

The very beautiful rarely love at all. Those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions. [ Lander ]

Though color be the lowest of all the constituent parts of beauty, yet it is vulgarly the most striking. [ Joseph Spence ]

By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted. [ Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature ]

No evil can touch him who looks on human beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is important not to keep a business engagement if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. [ Bailey ]

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. [ Ruskin ]

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. [ Joseph Addison ]

Beauty has no lustre except when it gleams through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it. [ Maturin ]

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty, the power of appreciating beauty. [ Margaret Fuller Ossoli ]

All that is enviable is not bought: love, genius, beauty, are divine gifts that the richest cannot acquire. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

It is a blessing to be fair, yet such a blessing as if the soul answer not to the face, may lead to a curse. [ Bishop Hall ]

We do love beauty at first sight; and we do cease to love it, if it is not accompanied by amiable qualities. [ Lydia Maria Child ]

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. [ Ruskin ]

A lover is a herald who proclaims the merit, the wit, or the beauty of a woman: what does a husband proclaim? [ Balzac ]

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. [ St. Pierre ]

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. [ Sheridan ]

Nothing under heaven so strongly does allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love bait. [ Spenser ]

Methinks a being that is beautiful becomes more so as it looks on beauty, the eternal beauty of undying things. [ Byron ]

Women are right to crave beauty at any price, since beauty is the only merit that men do not contest with them. [ A. Dupuy ]

Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. [ Bancroft ]

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. [ Chesterfield ]

One should sympathize with the joy, the beauty, the color of life - the less said about life's sores the better. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. [ Dryden ]

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. [ Pascal ]

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. [ Joseph Addison ]

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A great book that comes from a great thinker, - it is a ship of thought, deep-freighted with truth and with beauty. [ Theodore Parker ]

Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever you have, have beauty. [ Sydney Smith ]

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. [ Hughes ]

There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Beauty or unbecomingness is of more force to draw or deter invitation than any discourses which can be made to them. [ Locke ]

There comes a period of the imagination to each - a later youth - the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. [ Emerson ]

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. [ George MacDonald ]

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study. [ Ruffini ]

Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded; the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction. [ Eliza Cook ]

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. [ George Henry Lewes ]

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. [ Wycherley ]

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. [ T. Starr King ]

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. [ Raleigh ]

Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power. [ Richter ]

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. [ Colton ]

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love. [ Shenstone ]

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. [ Hazlitt ]

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. [ Georges Sand ]

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Contrast increases the splendour of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. [ John Ruskin ]

A look of intelligence in men is what regularity of features is in women; it is a style of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. [ La Bruyere ]

The taste of beauty and the relish of what is decent, just, and amiable perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. [ Shaftesbury ]

By cultivating the beautiful, we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers; by doing good, we foster those already belonging to humanity. [ Howard ]

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. [ Miss Edgeworth ]

In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. [ Hazlitt ]

There are no pleasures where women are not; and with the French, champagne itself has no flavor, unless served by the hand of beauty. [ Romieu ]

Beauty, wit, high birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare ]

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. [ Addison ]

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. [ Emerson ]

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty. [ Montaigne ]

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. [ Thoreau ]

It is the saddest of all things that even one human soul should dimly perceive the beauty that is ever around us, a perpetual benediction. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest. [ Coleridge ]

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]

To cultivate the sense of the beautiful is but one, and the most effectual of the ways of cultivating an appreciation of the Divine goodness. [ Bovee ]

Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed from its dominion; but regard is not a pearl of price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. [ Tupper ]

The divine right of beauty is the only divine right a man can acknowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he is not authorized to resist. [ Junius ]

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls. [ Lowell ]

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. [ Willis ]

I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more. As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired. [ Bailey ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents - flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. [ Emerson ]

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]

Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is illfavored. [ Emerson ]

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful. Every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. [ Emerson ]

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. [ Schiller ]

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. [ Froude ]

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. [ Boyle ]

The sense of beauty enters into the highest philosophy, as in Plato. The highest poet must be a philosopher, accomplished like Dante, or intuitive like Shakespeare. [ Gladstone ]

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace: and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. [ Landor ]

The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty; and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire. [ Channing ]

The useful encourages itself; for the multitude produce it, and no one can dispense with it: the beautiful must be encouraged; for few can set it forth, and many need it. [ Goethe ]

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty. [ Shenstone ]

The diamond is more valuable than any other stone, and vastly superior to all others in lustre and beauty; as also in hardness, which renders it more durable and lasting. [ Woodward ]

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice. [ James Ellis ]

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth. [ Schiller ]

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]

A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection. [ Charles Reade ]

He laid him down and slept, and from his side a woman in her magic beauty rose: dazzled and charmed, he called that woman bride, and his first sleep became his last repose. [ Besser ]

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. [ Emerson ]

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. [ Tuckerman ]

Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable; it appears to us as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Flowers are the terrestrial stars that bring down heaven to earth, and carry up our thoughts from earth to heaven; the poetry of the Creator, written in beauty and fragrance. [ Chatfield ]

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity. [ George D. Prentice ]

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base. [ Cecil ]

Yet even this hath this inconvenience in it - that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishing of the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mind is ill. [ Feltham ]

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]

Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. [ John Dryden ]

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. [ Joubert ]

The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty - a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections. [ Sir A. Alison ]

O brave poets! keep back nothing, nor mix falsehood with the whole; look up Godward; speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul; hold, in high poetic duty, truest truth the fairest beauty! [ Mrs. Browning ]

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray. [ Willmott ]

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners: beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. [ Joubert ]

Art thou beautiful? Live, then, in accordance with the curious work and frame of the creation, and let the beauty of thy person teach thee to beautify thy mind with holiness, the ornament of the beloved of God. [ Penn ]

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit standing before. [ C. H. Parkhurst ]

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind. [ Shaftesbury ]

A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]

Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which have all this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. [ Lamartine ]

With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. [ Sir William Jones ]

Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding. [ Goethe ]

Who can describe the transports of a heart truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration? [ Fordyce ]

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure; but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account. [ Bruyere ]

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. [ Anna Katharine Green ]

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]

Beauty in dress, as in other things, is largely relative. To admit this is to admit that a dress which is beautiful upon one woman may be hideous worn by another. Each should understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her dress be built upon it. [ Miss Oakey ]

Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

Flowers are esteemed by us, not so much on account of their extrinsic beauty - their glowing hues and genial fragrance - as because they have long been regarded as emblems of mortality - because they are associated in our minds with the ideas of mutation and decay. [ Bovee ]

No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. [ E. H. Chapin ]

People travel the world over to visit untouched places of natural beauty, yet modern gardens pay little heed to the simplicity and beauty of these environments... those special places we all must preserve and protect, each in his own way, before they are lost forever. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, November 2001 Application Form. Dare to Be Wild movie ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]

Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. [ Addison ]

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium. [ G. S. Hillard ]

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]

Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty. [ Whittier ]

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage. [ Victor Cousin ]

If one could look a while through the chinks of heaven's door, and see the beauty and bliss of paradise; if he could but lay his ear to heaven, and hear the ravishing music of those seraphic spirits, and the anthems of praise which they sing, how would his soul be exhilarated and transported with joy. [ Watson ]

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture. [ Plutarch ]

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. [ Leigh Hunt ]

We may be sure that cheerful beliefs about the unseen world, framed in full harmony with the beauty of the visible universe, and with the sweetness of domestic affections and joys, and held in company with kindred and friends, will illuminate the dark places on the pathway of earthly life and brighten all the road. [ Charles W. Eliot ]

As well might a lovely woman look daily in her mirror, yet not be aware of her beauty, as a great soul be unconscious of the powers with which Heaven has gifted him; not so much for himself, as to enlighten others - a messenger from God Himself, with a high and glorious mission to perform. Woe unto him who abuses that mission! [ Chambers ]

It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. [ Fielding ]

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]

Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]

Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image, - the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual Venus, - whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, - breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. [ Willmott ]

Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich and as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. [ Quarles ]

A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side. If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]

There is the same difference between diligence and neglect, that there is between a garden curiously kept and the sluggard's field when it was all overgrown with nettles and thorns; the one is clothed with beauty and the gracious amiableness of content and cheering loveliness; while the other hath nothing but either little smarting pungencies or else such transpiercings as rankle the flesh within. [ Feltham ]

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid. [ Willmott ]

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]

In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the bonny gem in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. [ H. N. Hudson ]

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]

No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]