The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
- Browning, Elizabeth B.

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

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
- Campbell. Thomas

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Camus, Albert

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away
- Cernuda, Luis

Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit is feathered often times with heavenly words, and, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
- Chapman

Pleasure is to Women what the Sun is to the Flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, etiolates, and destroys.
- Colton

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Countess of Blessington

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- de Gaultier, Jules

Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful.
- de Pompadour, Madame

Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Dickinson, Emily

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs.
- Dietrich. Marlene

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.
- Donne, John

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
- Dryden, John

It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have.
- Duchess of Windsor

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
- Eliot, George

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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, Ralph Waldo

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

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
- Erskine, John

Beauty and folly are old companions.
- Franklin, Benjamin

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
- Aristotle

The vain beauty cares most for the conquest which employed the whole artillery of her charms.
- Garrett, Edward

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
- Geis, R.

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

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
- Gregory I

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.
- Grenville

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 part about us; and I believe the story of Argu simplies no more, than 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.
- Addison, Joseph

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
- Hepburn, Katherine

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
- Horace

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's avaluable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
- Hubbard, Kin

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Bacon, Francis

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush.
- Bacon, Francis

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
- Bacon, Francis

The beautiful are never desolate, but someone always loves them.
- Bailey

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
- Juvenal

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

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Kerr, Jean

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms
- Kotomichi

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
- Bancroft, George

Beauty: it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and it you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you ha
- Barrie, James Matthew

...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
- Barrie, James Matthew

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
- Long, Lazarus

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.
- Loren, Sophia

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- Lowell, James Russell

There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions.
- Lubbock, John

Time's gradual touch has moulder'd into beauty many a tower which when it frown'd with all its battlements, was only terrible.
- Mason

Beauty is the first present nature gives to woman and the first it takes away.
- M?r?, George Brossin

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
- Milton, John

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

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
- Navajo Song

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek then with our eyes open.
- Nehru, Jawaharial

Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.
- Parker, Dorothy

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve
- Pope, Alexander

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
- Prior, Matthew

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
- Raleigh, Walter

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
- Reade, Charles

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
- Richter, Jean Paul

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
- Rowland, Helen

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
- Shakespeare, William

Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
- Shakespeare, William

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Bierce, Ambrose

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
- Spinoza, Benedict

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

Exuberance is beauty.
- Blake, William

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
- Thoreau, Henry David

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
- Tolstoy, Leo

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
- Vaughan, Bill

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
- von Schiller, Johann

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
- White, E.B.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
- Wilde, Oscar

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Wilde, Oscar

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- Woolf, Virginia