Beauty is but skin deep, ugly liesthe bone;
Beauty dies and fades away, but
ugly holds its own.
- - - Anonymous
Beauty is only skin deep, and the
world is full of thin skinned
people.
- - - Richard Armour
There are no ugly women; there
are only women who do not know
how to look pretty.
- - - Antoine P. Berryer
Beauty is a very handy thing to
have, especially for a woman who
ain't handsome.
- - - Josh Billings
Character contributes to beauty. It
fortifies a woman as her youth
fades. A mode of conduct, a
standard of courage, discipline,
fortitude and integrity can do a
great deal to make a woman
beautiful.
- - - Jacqueline Bisset
Beautiful young people are
accidents of nature. But beautiful
old people are works of art.
- - - Marjorie Barstow Breenbie
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry
skies;
And all that's best of dark and
bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day
denies.
- - - George Gordon, Lord Byron
"She Walks in Beauty"
That which is striking and
beautiful is not always good, but
that which is good is always
beautiful.
- - - Ninon de L'Enclos
Beauty is not caused, It is.
- - - Emily Dickinson
There's beauty in the silver singing
river
There's beauty in the sunrise in the
sky
But none of these and nothing else
can match the beauty
That I remember in my true love's
eyes
- - - Bob Dylan
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"Tomorrow is a
Long Time"
Wisdom is the abstract of the past,
but beauty is the promise of the
future.
- - - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Looks are so deceptive that people
should be done up like food
packages with the ingredients
clearly labeled.
- - - Helen Hudson
Anyone who keeps the ability to
see beauty never grows old.
- - - Franz Kafka
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;
pancreas?
- - - Jean Kerr "The Snake Has All
the Lines"
You've got to get up every
morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in
your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes you will
That you're beautiful as you feel.
- - - Carole King "Beautiful"
Any girl can be glamorous. All
you have to do is stand still and
look stupid.
- - - Hedy Lamarr
Beauty is a mystery. You can
neither eat it nor make flannel out
of it.
- - - David Herbert Lawrence
Beauty can pierce one like a pain.
- - - Thomas Mann
The reason the all-American boy
prefers beauty over brains is that
the all-American boy can see
better than he can think.
- - - Farrah Fawcett Majors
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening
air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand
stars.
- - - Christopher Marlowe "Dr.
Faustus"
Beauty is something wonderful
and strange that the artist fashions
out of the chaos of the world in the
torment of his soul.
- - - William Somerset
Beauty is the first present nature
gives to women and the first it
takes away.
- - - Mere
Beauty never slumbers;
All is in her name;
But the rose remembers
The dust from which it came.
- - - Edna St. Vincent Millay
In every man's heart there is a
secret nerve that answers to the
vibrations of beauty.
- - - Christopher Morley
Beauty is only sin deep.
- - - H. H. Munro (''Saki'')
Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
- - - Thomas Nashe
With beauty before me, I walk
With beauty behind me, I walk
With beauty above and about me, I
walk,
It is finished in beauty,
It is finished in beauty.
- - - Navajo chant
Cosmetics is a boon to every
woman, but a girl's best beauty aid
is still a near-sighted man.
- - - Yoko Ono
It's easy to be beautiful - just be
born that way.
- - - Suzy Parker
Rarely do great beauty and great
virtue dwell together.
- - - Petrarch [Francesco
Petrarca]
The flowers anew, returning
seasons bring,
But faded beauty has no second
spring.
- - - Ambrose Phillips "Pastoral"
Beauty is power; a smile is its
sword.
- - -C. Reade
Beauty in art is often nothing but
ugliness subdued.
- - - Jean Rostand
Remember that the most beautiful
things in the world are the most
useless: peacocks and lilies, for
instance.
- - - John Ruskin "The Stones of
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass,
a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within
an hour;
And beauty, blemish'd once, for
ever's lost,
In spite of physic, painting, pain,
and cost.
- - - William Shakespeare
Beauty is momentary in the mind
the fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
- - - Wallace Stevens
Death is the mother of Beauty;
hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to
our dreams
And our desires.
- - - Wallace Stevens "Sunday
Morning" (1923)
To a toad, what is beauty? A
female with two pop-eyes, a wide
mouth, yellow belly and spotted
back.
- - - Voltaire
It is better to be beautiful than to
be good. But it is better to be good
than to be ugly.
- - - Oscar Wilde "The Picture of
Dorian Gray"
The beauty of the world which is
soon to perish, has two edges, one
of laughter, one of anguish, cutting
the heart asunder.
- - - - Virginia Woolf