Beauty Quotes

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

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

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Beauty and folly are old companions.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.