1,046 Quotes Regarding Beauty


Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful.
Madame de Pompadour

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs.
Dietrich. Marlene

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.
John Donne

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden

It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have.
Duchess of Windsor

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits.
Erasmus

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

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

The vain beauty cares most for the conquest which employed the whole artillery of her charms.
Edward Garrett

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
R. Geis

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

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
Gregory I

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.
Grenville

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every part about us; and I believe the story of Argu simplies no more, than the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated, were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.
Joseph Addison