Beauty

(168 votes)   To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Sir Richard Steele
1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor

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(165 votes)   Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Thomas De Quincey
1785-1859, British Author

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(165 votes)   Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Bessie Delaney

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(164 votes)   Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Georges Bataille
1897-1962, French Novelist, Critic

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(161 votes)   Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

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(92 votes)   Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Portuguese Proverbs
Sayings of Portuguese Origin

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(88 votes)   The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(77 votes)   Beauty is, as beauty does.

unknown unknown

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(71 votes)   All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
1821-1867, French Poet

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(70 votes)   Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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(70 votes)   Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick
1591-1674, British Poet

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(68 votes)   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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(65 votes)   Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(64 votes)   Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante (Alighieri)
1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet

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(63 votes)   Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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