Quotes about Beauty

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
-- Al Bernstein

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

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

"Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it."
-- D.H. Lawrence

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
-- Edgar Allen Poe

"What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity."
-- Father Andre

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

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite."
-- George Bancroft

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
-- Henri B. Stendhal

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."
-- Hugh Nibley

"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

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
-- Kahlil Gibran

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

"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 when unadorned is adorned the most."
-- Roy Thompson

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
-- Socrates

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
-- Tim Robbins

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."
-- Voltaire