Beauty Quotes and Proverbs

Tara Grady: A person is only beautiful when their own beauty is reflecting on to others.

Unknown: Those who look for beauty, find it.

Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Lucille S. Harper: Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Jimmy Carter: It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Anonymous: It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Alice Walker: In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: 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 within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

Louis Orr (speech to the American Medical Association, 6/6/60): Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

Sophia Loren: Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

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

Jean Anouilh: Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

John Kenneth Galbraith: There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

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

Katherine Anne Porter: 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.

George Sand: The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

William Shakespeare: To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed; such seems your beauty still.

George Bernard Shaw: Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Voltaire: It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

John Greenleaf Whittier: Beauty seen is never lost, God's colours all are fast.

David McArthur and Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart: Most of us have had moments in childhood when we touched the divine presence. We did not think it extraordinary because it wasn't; it was just a beautiful moment filled with love. In those simple moments our hearts were alive, and we saw the poignant beauty of life vividly with wonder and appreciation.