| Author |
Quotes |
| Benedict Spinoza | I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. |
| Charles Reade | Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. |
| Christopher Morley | In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. |
| Conserve New Hampshire | the call of a loon across a quiet lake. |
| Edward Gibbon | Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love. |
| Emily Dickinson | Beauty is not caused. It is. |
| Frank Zappa | Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa. |
| George Chapman | Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. |
| Hartley Coleridge | She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. |
| Henry Austin Dobson | The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose. |
| Horace | Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. |
| James Matthew Barrie | ... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. |
| Johann Von Schiller | Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. |
| John Dryden | Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. |
| John Dryden | When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! |
| John Vance Cheney | I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. |
| Joseph Addison | Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. |
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