What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?
Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
BEAUTY, n. That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin - deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
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.
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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.
Adventure is not in the guidebook and Beauty is not on the map. Seek and ye shall find.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
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.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old for as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
