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 on beauty
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 on beauty
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 on beauty
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero on beauty
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 on beauty
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 on beauty
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
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 on beauty
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 on beauty
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 on beauty
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. Edmund Burke on beauty
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. Walt Whitman on beauty
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. George Jean Nathan on beauty
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 on beauty
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on beauty
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Francis Bacon on beauty
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine. Richard Dawkins on beauty
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. Walter Hagen on beauty
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. Redd Foxx on beauty
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Kinky Friedman on beauty