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Beauty53 quotes
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Evil Queen · 1937Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford · 1878Beauty can pierce one like a pain. — Thomas Mann · 1901Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880Beauty will save the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869All 53 quotes →Nature of beauty9 quotes
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. — David Hume · 1758Exuberance is beauty. — William Blake · 1793Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. — John Ruskin · 1851It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Derek Zoolander · 2001Beauty's but skin deep. — John Davies of Hereford · 1616All 9 quotes →Beautiful women4 quotes
Pretty girls make graves. — Jack Kerouac · 1958You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body. — Ty Webb · 1980A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day. — Irving Berlin · 1919I think the peasant girl is more beautiful than a lady, in her dusty, patched blue skirt and bodice, which get the most delicate hues from weather, wind, and sun. But if she puts on a lady's dress, she loses her peculiar charm. — Vincent van Gogh · 1885Beauty fades4 quotes
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631Beauty's of a fading nature,
Has a season, and is gone! — Robert Burns · 1764Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy. — Virgil · 37 BCPower of beauty3 quotes
Beauty can pierce one like a pain. — Thomas Mann · 1901Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator. — William Shakespeare · 1594Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed. — John Milton · 1671Aging2 quotes
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Appearance vs. reality2 quotes
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. — Beauty and the Beast · 1991Finding beauty2 quotes
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing! — Camille Pissarro · 1893For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007Genius2 quotes
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Observation2 quotes
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing! — Camille Pissarro · 1893I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject. — Walker Evans · 1974Paying attention2 quotes
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing! — Camille Pissarro · 1893For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007Photography2 quotes
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag · 1977Relativism2 quotes
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford · 1878Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. — David Hume · 1758Ugliness2 quotes
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl · 1980I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. — John ConstableArt1 quote
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874Beauty is skin deep1 quote
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597Beauty of math1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Comparing oneself to others1 quote
Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? — Evil Queen · 1937Dangers of love1 quote
Pretty girls make graves. — Jack Kerouac · 1958Disenchanted world1 quote
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? — Douglas Adams · 1979Exuberance1 quote
Exuberance is beauty. — William Blake · 1793Fading love1 quote
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631Feeling overwhelmed1 quote
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. — Ricky Fitts · 1999Flowers1 quote
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. — John Ruskin · 1851Gardens1 quote
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? — Douglas Adams · 1979Good looks1 quote
Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy. — Virgil · 37 BCGood luck1 quote
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. — Khaled Hosseini · 2013Grace1 quote
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Harmony1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Humor1 quote
I believe that humor is a part of beauty. — Max Beckmann · 1903