Quotes on Beauty

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.