BEAUTY QUOTES III

quotations about beauty

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If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

AMéLIE NOTHOMB

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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In our time, at all events, Beauty has never walked the streets with so frank a radiance, so confident an air of security, and in her eyes and in her carriage, as in her subtly shaped and subtly scented garments, so conspicuous a challenge to the musty, outworn, proprieties to frown upon her all they please.

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

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Let a young maiden, who would preserve her beauty, preserve the purity of soul, those sweet qualities of the mind, those virtues, in short, by which she first drew her lover to her feet.

T. S. ARTHUR

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Beauty is best when it comes mixed with danger.

SHERRILYN KENYON & DIANNA LOVE

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What is the beauty of bodies? It is something which at first view presents itself to sense, and which the soul familiarly apprehends and eagerly embraces, as if it were allied to itself. But when it meets with the deformed, it hastily starts from the view and retires abhorrent from its discordant nature.

PLOTINUS

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We discern beauty in concrete objects and abstract ideas, in works of nature and works of art, in things, animals and people, in objects, qualities and actions. As the list expands to take in just about every ontological category (there are beautiful propositions as well as beautiful worlds, beautiful proofs as well as beautiful snails, even beautiful diseases and beautiful deaths), it becomes obvious that we are not describing a property like shape, size, or colour, uncontroversially present to all who can find their way around the physical world. For one thing: how could there be a single property exhibited by so many disparate types of thing?

ROGER SCRUTON

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There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

FULKE GREVILLE

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Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions. The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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

JEAN ANOUILH

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Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

PLATO

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To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

GAIL CARSON LEVINE

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I found a money back guarantee on a beauty cream. Rushed down to the store. They took one look at me and paid me in advance.

PHYLLIS DILLER

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Thus was beauty sent from heaven--the lovely mistress of truth and good in this dark world.

MARK AKENSIDE

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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

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Beauty, of course, is an asset. But the girls who have greenbacks don't have to worry over not having pink faces.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

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

EDGAR ALLAN POE

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It's a good thing beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

PHYLLIS DILLER

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Beauty is but a lease from nature.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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Where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

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