american beauty quotes


Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
- Lew Wallace


Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.
- Theocritus


Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, not utter'd b base sale of chapmen's tongues.
- Shakespeare


Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
- Thomas Nash


Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing and therefore, of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. And I further add that the good is the beautiful.
- Plato


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Kahlil Gibran


Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
- Ovid


Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
- Kahlil Gibran


Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume


Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Emily Dickinson


Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
- Spenser


Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
- George Eliot


Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
- W. S. Maugham


Beauty is the flower of chastity.
- Zeno


Beauty is the flower of virtue
- John Ray - English Proverb


Beauty is the gift of God.
- Aristotle


Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
- O. W. Holmes


Beauty is the lover's gift.
- Congreve


Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
- Emerson


Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
- Oscar Wilde