“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.”
“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.”
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?”
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
“The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.”
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”
“Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.”
“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.”
“No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.”
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.”
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.”
“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”
“There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.”
“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”
“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.”
“There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.”
“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”
“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.”