Beauty Quotes

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

Langston Hughes

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Kin Hubbard

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Tim Robbins

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Thomas Jefferson

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes and is drawn to the face of God.

Margaret Brownley, Grieving God'

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Albrecht Durer

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing.

Dave Chappelle

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

George Eliot

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

George Eliot

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Mary McDonnell

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

Christopher Meloni