1,046 Quotes Regarding Beauty


Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton

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

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.
Navajo Song

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek then with our eyes open.
Jawaharial Nehru

Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.
Dorothy Parker

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve
Alexander Pope

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Matthew Prior

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.
Walter Raleigh

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Jean Paul Richter

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
William Shakespeare

Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
William Shakespeare

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

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.
Benedict Spinoza

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

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy