BEAUTY

Related Subjects: Appearance, Art, Charm, Delicacy, Face, Glory, Love, Woman, Youth

1. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.—ARISTOTLE
   

2. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the
   proportion.—BACON, Of Beauty
   

3. I loved her for that she was beautiful.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, Festus
   

4. The mate for beauty should be a man, and not a money-chest.—BULWER-LYTTON, Richelieu
   

5. 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, Hebrew Melodies
   

6. The beautiful is not a physical fact, beauty does not belong to things, it belongs wholly to the human esthetic activity, and thus is a mental or spiritual fact.—WILDON CARR
   

7. At all events she had always the "power of suggesting things much lovelier than herself," as the perfume of a single flower may call up the whole sweetness of spring.—WILLA CATHER
   

8. Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
   In that she never studied to be fairer
   Than Nature made her.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, All Fools
   

9. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.—HARTLEY COLERIDGE, Song, She Is Not Fair
   

10. Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owner.—GEORGE DU MAURIER, Trilby
    

11. If eyes were made for seeing,
    Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.—EMERSON, The Rhodora
    

12. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
    

13. Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the came all.—EMERSON
    

14. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.—KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
    

15. Give me a look, give me a face,
    That makes simplicity a grace;
    Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,
    Such sweet neglect more taketh me
    Than all the adulteries of art:
    They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.—BEN JONSON, Epicoene
    

16. Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.—KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn
    

17. A thing of beauty is a joy forever:  
    Its loveliness increases; it will never
    Pass into nothingness.—KEATS, Endymion
    

18. 'Tis beauty calls and glory shows the way.—NATHANIEL LEE, Alexander the Great
    

19. What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
    Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.—LORD LYTTELTON, Advice to a Lady
    

20. Whatever is in any way beautiful bath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
    

21. Euclid alone
    Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
    Who, though once only and then but far away.
    Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.—EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare
    

22. Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between man and his industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.—JEAN MILLET
    

23. A bevy of fair women.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

24. Beauty stands
    In the admiration only of weak minds
    Led captive.—MILTON, Paradise Regained
    

25. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
    After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
    

26. The beauty of a butterfly's wing, the beauty of all things, is not a slave to purpose, a drudge sold to futurity. It is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own high right.—DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE, An Almanac for Moderns
    

27. O that beauty should harbour a heart that's so hard!—THOMAS PERCY, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
    

28. Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
    And beauty draws us with a single hair.—POPE, The Rape of the Lock
    

29. When the candles are out all women are fair.—Proverb
    

30. Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but husbands none at all.—Proverb
    

31. Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.—Proverb
    

32. She who is born a beauty is half married.—Proverb
    

33. Beauty without virtue is a curse.—Proverb
    

34. A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

35. If she undervalue me,
    What care I how fair she be?—SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Poem
    

36. 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
    

37. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

38. Could I come near your beauty with my nails
    I'd set my ten commandments in your face.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

39. One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
    Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

40. Who is Sylvia? what is she?
    That all our swains commend her?—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

41. Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
    The eyes of men without an orator.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
    

42. To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
    For as you were when first your eye I ey'd
    Such seems your beauty still.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet CIV
    

43. I believe in Michael Angelo, Velasquez and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting.—BERNARD SHAW, The Doctor's Dilemma
    

44. For all that faire is, is by nature good;
    That is a signe to know the gentle blood.—EDMUND SPENSER, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie
    

45. A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
    And most divinely f air.—TENNYSON, A Dream of Fair Women
    

46. 'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have even a life-enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years' lease.—THACKERAY, The Virginians
    

47. The sense of beauty is our subjective appreciation of objective qualities in what we see or hear.—SIR ARTHUR THOMSON, The Beauty of Nature
    

48. The beautiful is not necessarily the pretty or the handsome; it implies an artistic unity which excites a joy­ous aesthetic emotion; it may be seen in a gargoyle as well as in a statue.—SIR ARTHUR THOMSON, The Beauty of Nature
    

49. Beauty is a quality of things which arouses in us a particular kind of delight.—SIR ARTHUR THOMSON, The Beauty of Nature
    

50. The perception of beauty is a moral test.—THOREAU, Journal
    

51. All the beauty of the world 'tis but skin deep.—RALPH VENNING, Orthodox Paradoxes
    

52. Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.—VERGIL, Aeneid
    

53. She was a phantom of delight
    When first she gleamed upon my sight;
    A lovely apparition, sent
    To be a moment's ornament;
    Her eyes as stars of twilight fair,
    Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair,
    But all things else about her drawn
    From May-time and the cheerful dawn.—WORDSWORTH, She Was a Phantom of Delight