beauty quotes

“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”

“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Phyllis Diller

“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”

— Phyllis Diller

“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

“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. ”

“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To love beauty is to see light.”

— Victor Hugo

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”

— Victor Hugo

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

— Victor Hugo

“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”

— Victor Hugo

“ The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.”

— Victor Hugo

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

— Franz Kafka

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

— Franz Kafka

“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 them with our eyes open.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Beauty is a fragile gift. ”

“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”

“Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.”

“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. ”

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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