1,046 Quotes Regarding Beauty


Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake

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

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen Hawking

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.
Arthur Helps

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.
W. Somerset Maugham

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Denis Waitley

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross