Beauty Quotes

There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable.
- Anon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
- John Erskine

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: if the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't.
- Shakespeare

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Franke

Thou who hast The Fatal gift of beauty.
- Byron

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
- Dryden

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
- Homer

Too late I loved Thee, O Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! Too late I loved thee! And Lo! Thou wert within, and I abroad searching for Thee. Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee.
- St. Augustine

Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
- E. B. Browning

Trust not too much to that enchanting face: beauty's a charm; but soon the charm will pass.
- Vergil

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
- Schiller

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
- Nadine Gordimer

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
- H. K. White

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end.
- Emerson

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us. And so paradoxically, the more we turn toward beauty, the more we turn away from it. For it is in the opposite direction. We turn outward and it is within.
- Ernesto Cardenal

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
- Shakespeare

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

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.
- Sapho