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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet

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

Langston Hughes

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Lew Wallace

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Oliver Platt

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Kevyn Aucoin

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

Jane Seymour

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Vitruvius

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

Moshe Safdie

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thomas Overbury

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Robert Bridges

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

Edward Gibbon

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells

Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.

Alek Wek

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Eugene Ionesco

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Alicia Machado

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Camille Paglia

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

Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Beauty is everything.

Jorja Fox

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm an aesthetic person who loves beauty.

Udo Kier

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Ovid

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

Anne Bronte

Beauty is not just physical.

Halle Berry

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

Socrates

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

Aimee Mullins

Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.

Alessia Cara

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce