Beauty Quotes

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

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

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.