BEAUTY

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
Aristotle

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
St. Augustine

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...
John Keats

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

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
Father Andre

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Christopher Morley

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
Mary Arnim

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?
Kotomichi

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
Aldous Huxley

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
Upham

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Persian Proverbs

The beauty of a person is being who they are. Nobody else. Beauty is what you make of it. If you make it the celebrities and models then your a fool in my opinion. Beauty is achieved when you realise you already were to being with.
jennifer sare

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Tim Robbins

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
St. Teresa of Avila

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Hugh Nibley

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
Arthur Rimbaud

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
Albert Camus

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
Tyra Banks

Beauty, to me, is an esoteric energy that I can't fully comprehend. I'm surrounded by inexplicable beauty all the time.
Greg Evans

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.
Felicia D. Hemans

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
Virgil

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Vernon Howard

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
George B. MTrT

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
John Ray

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
Plato

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.
Elizabeth Heller

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
Edward M. Forster

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]
Bible

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Hada Bejar

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!
Bessie Delaney

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
Edward F. Halifax

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Sir Richard Steele

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
Thomas De Quincey

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Georges Bataille

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Sir Walter Raleigh