What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Exuberance is beauty.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

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

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.