Quote: There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

Quote: Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Author: James Allen 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''

Quote: What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Author: Father Andre

Quote: Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Author: Jean Anouilh 1910-1987, French Playwright

Quote: Things are beautiful if you love them.

Author: Jean Anouilh 1910-1987, French Playwright

Quote: Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: 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.

Author: Mary Arnim 1866-1941, Australian-born British Novelist

Quote: I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

Quote: The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Author: George Bancroft 1800-1891, American Historian

Quote: Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Author: George Bancroft 1800-1891, American Historian

Quote: I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Author: Tyra Banks 1973-, American Model

Quote: 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.

Author: Georges Bataille 1897-1962, French Novelist, Critic

Quote: All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Author: Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet

Quote: There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Author: Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet

Quote: The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Author: Hada Bejar

Quote: The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Author: Walter Benjamin 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher

Quote: Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Author: Al Bernstein

Quote: I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Author: Halle Berry 1968-, American Actress

Quote: Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

Quote: Exuberance is beauty.

Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

Quote: There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Author: Marguerite Gardiner Blessington 1789-1849, Irish Writer and Socialite

Quote: Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

Quote: The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

Quote: Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Author: Andre Breton 1989-1966, French Surrealist

Quote: Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Author: Helen Gurley Brown American Businesswoman, Founder of Cosmopolitan Magazine

Quote: The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet

Quote: In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

Quote: At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

Quote: Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

Quote: Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

Quote: Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet

Quote: Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Author: Bessie Delaney

Quote: Beauty is not caused. It is.

Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet

Quote: No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Author: Annie Dillard 1945-, American Author, Poet

Quote: There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist

Quote: A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Beauty rests on necessities.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: 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.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: 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.

Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

Quote: 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.

Author: Northrop Frye 1912-1991, Canadian Literary Critic

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

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-, American Economist

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

Author: Edward Gibbon 1737-1794, British Historian

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

Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

Quote: Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

Quote: 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.

Author: Jean-Luc Godard 1930-, French Filmmaker, Author

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

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: 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.

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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

Author: Edmond and Jules De Goncourt 1822-1896, French Writers

Quote: A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Author: Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

Quote: 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.

Author: Lord Greville 1554-1628, British Poet

Quote: The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Author: Edward F. Halifax 1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman

Quote: Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Author: Elizabeth Heller

Quote: There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.

Author: Felicia D. Hemans 1794-1835, British Poet

Quote: Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

Author: Robert Herrick 1591-1674, British Poet

Quote: Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

Quote: Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Author: Doug Horton

Quote: By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Author: Vernon Howard 19?-1992, American Author, Speaker

Quote: Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist

Quote: No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Author: Langston Hughes 1902-1967, American Poet, Short-story Writer, Playwright

Quote: Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author

Quote: Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author

Quote: Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Author: Immermann

Quote: Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Author: Eugene Ionesco 1912-, Romanian-born French Playwright

Quote: A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...

Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet

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

Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet

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

Author: Jean Kerr 1923-, American Author, Playwright

Quote: 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.

Author: Paul Klee 1879-1940, Swiss Artist

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

Author: Paul Klee 1879-1940, Swiss Artist

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

Author: Kotomichi

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

Author: Karl Kraus 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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

Author: Fran Lebowitz 1951-, American Journalist

Quote: That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Author: Ninon De L'Enclos 1620-1705, French Courtesan

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

Author: Sir John Lubbock 1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

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

Author: Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet

Quote: 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.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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

Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

Quote: The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Author: Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847, German Composer

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

Author: George B. MTrT

Quote: Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Author: Michelangelo 1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor

Quote: Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Author: Milman

Quote: The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

Quote: How goodness heightens beauty!

Author: Hannah More 1745-1833, British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist

Quote: Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Author: Christopher Morley 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

Quote: In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Author: Christopher Morley 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

Quote: A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Author: Lewis Mumford 1895-1990, American Social Philosopher

Quote: 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.

Author: Robert Nathan 1894-1985, American Novelist

Quote: 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.

Author: Edward A. Navajo

Quote: Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Author: Hugh Nibley

Quote: In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Quote: Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Quote: It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Author: Frank O'Hara 1926-1966, American Poet, Art Critic

Quote: Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Author: Camille Paglia 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator

Quote: Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

Quote: Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Author: Octavio Paz 1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist

Quote: The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Author: Ambrose Philips 1674-1749, British Poet, Politician

Quote: I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist

Quote: Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Author: Pindar BC 518?-18438, Greek Poet

Quote: Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

Quote: 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.

Author: Plotinus

Quote: Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Author: Plotinus

Quote: Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

Quote: Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

Quote: The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Author: Katherine Anne Porter 1890-1980, American short-story Writer, Novelist

Quote: Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Author: Emily Prager 1948-, American Journalist, Author

Quote: A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin

Quote: Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin

Quote: The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Author: Persian Proverb Sayings of Persian Origin

Quote: Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Author: Portuguese Proverb Sayings of Portuguese Origin

Quote: Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Author: Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859, British Author

Quote: 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.

Author: Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

Quote: 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.

Author: John Ray 1627-1705, British Naturalist

Quote: Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Author: Charles Reade 1814-1884, British Novelist, Dramatist

Quote: One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Author: Arthur Rimbaud 1854-1891, French Poet

Quote: Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Author: Tim Robbins 1958-, American Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Writer

Quote: Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Author: Jean Rostand 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer

Quote: Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Author: Jalal-Uddin Rumi 1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet

Quote: Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

Quote: Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

Quote: It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Author: Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962, British Novelist, Poet

Quote: 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.

Author: George Sand 1804-1876, French Novelist

Quote: Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

Quote: What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Author: Sappho fl. BC 600-, Greek Lyric Poet

Quote: If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

Quote: Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

Quote: The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

Author: Marquise De STVignT

Quote: Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

Quote: Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

Quote: What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist

Quote: Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Author: Edmund Spenser 1552-1599, British Poet

Quote: I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Author: Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza 1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

Quote: To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Author: Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor

Quote: Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Author: Henri B. Stendhal 1783-1842, French Writer

Quote: You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Author: Marie Carmichael Stopes 1880-1958, British Scientist, Pioneer of Birth Control

Quote: The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Author: Edwin Way Teale 1899-1980, American Naturalist and Writer

Quote: We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Author: St. Teresa of Avila 1515-1582, Spanish Saint, Mystic

Quote: Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Author: Roy Thompson 1894-1977, British Press Lord

Quote: It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

Quote: Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Author: Upham

Quote: Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

Quote: Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic

Quote: My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Author: Hermann Wey

Quote: Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

Quote: Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Author: Naomi Wolf 1962-, American Author

Quote: Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797, British Feminist Writer