Beauty Quotes

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.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

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

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

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.