Beauty - Beautiful Quotes

From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die. (Sonnet 1)

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire – all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its soul in beauty. This must be your contribution to the world.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

For in the eyes of love, that which is not beautiful often seems so.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Beauty without virtue is like a fair flower that has an offensive odor. But true beauty bathes in that light without which nothing is beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God, like the rain. He allows the rain to fall upon the just and the wicked, and He gives beauty not only to the good, […]

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Tell a girl she’s beautiful, and she wouldn’t believe you really mean it. Tell her she’s more beautiful than another girl, and she would delightfully believe you’re being true.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.