Quotes about beauty

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

— Frank O'Hara

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

— Camille Paglia

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

— Blaise Pascal

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

— Octavio Paz

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

— Ambrose Philips

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

— Pablo Picasso

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

— Pindar

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

— Plato

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

— Plotinus

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

— Plotinus

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

— Alexander Pope

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

— Emily Prager

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

— English Proverb

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

— French Proverb

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

— Persian Proverb

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

— Portuguese Proverb

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

— Thomas De Quincey

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.

— Sir Walter Raleigh

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

— John Ray

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

— Charles Reade

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

— Arthur Rimbaud

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

— Tim Robbins

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

— Jean Rostand

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

— Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

— Vita Sackville-West

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.

— George Sand

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

— George Santayana

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

— Sappho

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

— Marquise De SeVigne

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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

— Socrates

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

— Susan Sontag

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

— Edmund Spenser

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.

— Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

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

— Sir Richard Steele

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

— Henri B. Stendhal

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 Carmichael Stopes

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

— Edwin Way Teale

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

— St. Teresa of Avila

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

— Roy Thompson

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

— Source Unknown

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

— Source Unknown

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

— Upham

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

— Virgil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

— Simone Weil

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

— Hermann Wey

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

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.

— Oscar Wilde

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

— Oscar Wilde

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

— Naomi Wolf

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Never forget that you are married to a very beautiful woman.

— Michael Lipsey

She was everything that was untouchable.

— Sonya Hartnett

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

— Janet Fitch

Beauty is pleasure to the mind through the senses.

— Daniella Kessler

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem But that is impossible; The world has written its own.

— Dejan Stojanovic

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only an instant removed, unnoticed and squandered.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Blinds are not those who cant see but those who cant see anything beyond physical beauty .

— PRIYA

Your beautiful no matter what people say,just be yourself and everything will be alright.

— Source Unknown

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

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

— Fran Lebowitz

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

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

— Katherine Anne Porter

God may soon fell in love with his own trimmed Goddess, made to make me mad. I bet veiling up her luminous facade is so useless as her beauty scatters in the gloom of my Lonely nights.

— mirza sharafat hussain zarafshan