Beauty quotes
Alberti Leon Battista 1404-1472
Beauty-the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the
harmony of the whole.
Anonymous
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.
Arnold Mattew 1822-1888
„Thyrsis"
And that sweet City with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays „Of Beauty"
That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Blake William 1757-1827
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Exuberance is beauty.
Bridges Robert 1844-1930
The Growth of Love
Beauty sat with me all the summer day,
Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye;
Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by,
Love in her train stood ready for his prey.
Buck Pearl 1892-1973
The Good Earth
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundredth with a beauty.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Of its own beauty is the mind diseased.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
„She Walks in Beauty"
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Camus Albert 1913-1960
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.
Casson Hugh 1910-
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Davies Robertson 1911-1995
Female beauty is an important minor sacrament ...I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.
Donne John 1572-1631
„The Anagram"
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Donne John 1572-1631
„The Autumnal"
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Dostoevsky Fedor 1821-1881
Beauty will save the world.
Dostoevsky Fedor 1821-1881
The Brothers Karamazov
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts;which exactly answers its ends.
Euwer Anthony
As a beauty I am not a star,
There are others more handsome by far,
But my face-I don't mind it
For I am behind it.
It's the people in front get the jar.
Farquhar George 1678-1707
The Beaux' Stratagem
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.
Flecker James Elroy 1884-1915
The Dying Patriot
Noon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town,
Beauty she was statue cold-there's blood upon her gown.
Frye Northrop 1912-1991
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing,but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
Fuller Margaret 1810-1850
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
The Pirates of Penzance
The question is, had he not been
A thing of beauty,
Would she be swayed by quite as keen
A sense of duty?
Hooper Ellen Sturgis 1816-1841
„Beauty and Duty"
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.
Hungerford Margaret Wolfe 1855-1897
Molly Bawn
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Huxley Aldous 1894-1963
„Ninth Philosopher's Song"
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Jonson Ben c. 1573-1637
Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die.
Keats John 1795-1821
Endymion
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothiningness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Keats John 1795-1821
„Ode on a Grecian Urn"
„Beauty is truth, truth beauty", -that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Keats John 1795-1821
„Ode on Melancholy"
She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,
Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Traffics and Discoveries „Mrs Bathurst"
‚Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.