BEAUTY QUOTES X

quotations about beauty

When I entreated Life to make me wise,
It drew aside Love's broidered veil of lies;
And perilous Beauty, undivined before,
Beckoned me from the mazes of his eyes.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love


You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf


Much that is beautiful must be discarded
So that we may resemble a taller
Impression of ourselves.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Illustration"


Love is the divine Fire, and Beauty its glowing reflection in the skies of Time.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

JOHN KEATS

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"


Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

ST. AUGUSTINE

City of God


Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Beauty", The Essays or Counsels


Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.

L. FRANK BAUM

The Tin Woodman of Oz


We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

MAYA ANGELOU

attributed, The Butterfly's Daughter


To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm--a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a certain hesitation. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner.

ROGER SCRUTON

Beauty


Only true love can keep beauty innocent.

U2

"A Man and a Woman"


A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection.

CHARLES READE

Foul Play


In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Travels in Philadelphia


This is the essence of beauty--the possession of a quality which excites the human organism to functioning harmonious with its own nature.

ETHEL PUFFER HOWES

The Psychology of Beauty


Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.

DAVE HICKEY

The Invisible Dragon


The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

The Elementary Particles


Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Saint's Progress


Beauty is when your outside intrigues people and your inside makes them stay.

ANONYMOUS


Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

RICHARD ARMOUR

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes


Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

Mary Barton