The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. – Francis Bacon
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. – Redd Foxx
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. – Kinky Friedman
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. – Benjamin Disraeli
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. – James Dean
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. – William Penn
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman. – Honore de Balzac
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. – Michelangelo
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. – Martha Beck
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. – William Wordsworth
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity. – Ruby Dee
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. – Langston Hughes
To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? – Richard P. Feynman
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. – Maria Montessori
