Beauty Quotes

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No gems, no gold she needs to wear; she shines intrinsically fair.
- Thomas Bedingfield

Not that which is great is beautiful, but that which is beautiful is great.
- Unknown - Latin Proverb

Nothing is more moving than beauty which is unaware of itself.
- Robert Mallet

O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, that when she dies with beauty dies her store.
- Shakespeare

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
- George William Russell

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.
- Schiller

Praised be the gods that made my spirit mad; kept me aflame and raw to beauty's touch.
- Angela Morgan

Pretty can only get prettier, but beauty compounds itself.
- J. Kennedy Ellington

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
- Lady Duff-Gordon

Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
- Juvenal

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- Petrarch

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
- La Rochefoucauld

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty-they merely move it from the faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
- Alan Seeger

Take from our hearts the love of the beautiful, and you take away all the charm of life.
- Rousseau

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
- Havelock Ellis

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
- Emerson