Beauty Quotes

"Beauty of life and character, as in art, has no sharp angles. Its lines seem continuous, so gently does curve melt into curve. It is sharp angles that keep many souls frombeing beautiful that are almost so. Our good is less good when it is abrupt, rude, ill timed, or ill placed. Many a man and woman might double their influence and success by a kindly courtesy and a fine manner." - Orison Swett Marden

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror...We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting." - Kahlil Gibran

"The world is full of beauty when your heart is filled with love" - Anonymous

All this time and at all times wait the words of true poems,
The words of true poems do not merely please,
The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothersand fathers,
The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science. - Walt Whitman

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

"The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"False beauty has no enemy save time...Believe not beauty true nor that ugly false." - The Oculatum

"If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." -- Chinese Proverb

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” - John Keats

If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents. - Robert Browning

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler Ross.

"Wanted, a man who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to heed a strong will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself." – Orison Swett Marden

"A wife is sought for her virtue, a concubine for her beauty." - Anonymous Chinese proverb.

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