Beauty Quotes IV

BEAUTY QUOTES IV

quotations about beauty

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

GAIL CARSON LEVINE

Fairest

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Where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga

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It's a good thing beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

PHYLLIS DILLER

The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes

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Our world oft turns in gloom, and Life both many a perilous way,
Yet there's no path so desolate and thorny, cold and gray,
But Beauty like a beacon burns above the dark of strife,
And like an Alchemist aye turns all things to golden life.

GERALD MASSEY

"The Chivalry of Labour Exhorted to the Worship of Beauty"

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There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims

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Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

PLATO

Lysis

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Beauty had this penalty -- it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life -- froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

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Were part of the human race to be arrayed in that splendor of beauty which beams from the statues of gods, universal consent would acknowledge the rest of mankind naturally formed to be their slaves.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Oft as by chance, a little while apart
The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,
Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart,
Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

ALAN SEEGER

"Sonnet VIII"

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Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.

ROGER SCRUTON

Beauty

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

HAVELOCK ELLIS

Impressions and Comments

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If we consider all the hypotheses, which have been formed either by philosophy or common reason, to explain the difference betwixt beauty and deformity, we shall find that all of them resolve into this, that beauty is such an order and construction of parts, as either by the primary constitution of our nature, by custom, or by caprice, is fitted to give a pleasure and satisfaction to the soul. This is the distinguishing character of beauty, and forms all the difference betwixt it and deformity, whose natural tendency is to produce uneasiness.

DAVID HUME

A Treatise of Human Nature

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When we are young, the beauty of women has a supreme attraction beyond all other possessions or qualities; and there are self-evident reasons why it should be so. It is only as we grow older that we know the value of brains, and, while still admiring beauty--as indeed who does not?--admire it as one passing by on the other side--as a grace to look at, but not to hold, unless accompanied by something more lasting.

ELIZA LYNN LINTON

The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays

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Beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

"Montaigne," The Common Reader

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We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.

ALBERT CAMUS

"Helen's Exile"

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.