I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
If to her share some female errors fall, look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage;
Everybody could be beautiful, really, but most women present themselves so awkwardly. Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the […]
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
