Beauty
is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone;
Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.
- - - Anonymous
Beauty is only
skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
- - - Richard Armour
There are no ugly
women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.
- - - Antoine P. Berryer
Beauty is a very
handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
- - - Josh Billings
Character
contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of
conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a
great deal to make a woman beautiful.
- - - Jacqueline Bisset
Beautiful young
people are accidents of nature. But beautiful old people are works of art.
- - - Marjorie Barstow Breenbie
She walks in
beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
- - - George Gordon, Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty"
That which is
striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always
beautiful.
- - - Ninon de L'Enclos
Beauty is not
caused, It is.
- - - Emily Dickinson
There's beauty in
the silver singing river
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky
But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty
That I remember in my true love's eyes
- - - Bob Dylan "Tomorrow is a Long Time"
Wisdom is the
abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
- - - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Looks are so
deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients
clearly labeled.
- - - Helen Hudson
Anyone who keeps
the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- - - Franz Kafka
A thing of beauty
is a joy for ever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
- - - John Keats "Endymion"
"Beauty is
truth, truth beauty,"- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- - - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
I'm tired of all
this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do
you want, an adorable pancreas?
- - - Jean Kerr "The Snake Has All the Lines"
You've got to get
up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes you will
That you're beautiful as you feel.
- - - Carole King "Beautiful"
Any girl can be
glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
- - - Hedy Lamarr
Beauty is a
mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
- - - David Herbert Lawrence
Beauty can pierce
one like a pain.
- - - Thomas Mann
The reason the
all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can
see better than he can think.
- - - Farrah Fawcett Majors
Oh, thou art
fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
- - - Christopher Marlowe "Dr. Faustus"
Beauty is
something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of
the world in the torment of his soul.
- - - William Somerset Maugham
Beauty is the
first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
- - - Mere
Beauty never
slumbers;
All is in her name;
But the rose remembers
The dust from which it came.
- - - Edna St. Vincent Millay
In every man's
heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
- - - Christopher Morley
Beauty is only sin
deep.
- - - H. H. Munro (''Saki'')
Beauty is but a
flower
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
- - - Thomas Nashe
With beauty before
me, I walk
With beauty behind me, I walk
With beauty above and about me, I walk,
It is finished in beauty,
It is finished in beauty.
- - - Navajo chant
Cosmetics is a
boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
- - - Yoko Ono
It's easy to be
beautiful - just be born that way.
- - - Suzy Parker
Rarely do great
beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- - - Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca]
The flowers anew,
returning seasons bring,
But faded beauty has no second spring.
- - - Ambrose Phillips "Pastoral"
Beauty is power; a
smile is its sword.
- - -C. Reade
Beauty in art is
often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- - - Jean Rostand
Remember that the
most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies,
for instance.
- - - John Ruskin "The Stones of Venice"
Beauty's a
doubtful good, a glass, a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour;
And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost,
In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.
- - - William Shakespeare
Beauty is
momentary in the mind
the fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
- - - Wallace Stevens
Death is the
mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
- - - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning" (1923)
To a toad, what is
beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted
back.
- - - Voltaire
It is better to be
beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
- - - Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
The beauty of the world
which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,
cutting the heart asunder.
- - - Virginia Woolf
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