Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
~ Aristotle ~
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
~ Mary Arnim ~
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
~ Georges Bataille ~
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
~ Hada Bejar ~
Exuberance is beauty.
~ William Blake ~
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
~ Marguerite Gardiner Blessington ~
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
~ Lord Greville ~
Beauty is only skin deep.
~ Kin Hubbard ~
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 for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
~ Immermann ~
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
~ Jean Kerr ~
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
~ Ninon De L'Enclos ~
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
~ Felix Mendelssohn ~
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
~ George B. M�r� ~
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
~ Robert Nathan ~
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.
~ Edward A. Navajo ~
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
~ Hugh Nibley ~
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
~ Ambrose Philips ~
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 ~
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 ~
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
~ Tim Robbins ~