“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.”
“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.”
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”
“Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.”
“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.”
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.”
“The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.”
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”
“To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.”
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?”
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
“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.”
“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.”
“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”
“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...”
“Exuberance is beauty.”
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
“Beauty rests on necessities.”
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
“How goodness heightens beauty!”
“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”