Beauty - Beautiful Quotes

She is magnificently ugly, deliciously hideous… in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind. (description of the writer George Eliot – born Mary Ann Evans)

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. (Romeo and Juliet)

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night. (Romeo and Juliet)

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. (Henry V)

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.