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Beauty

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. – Mary Oliver

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. – Edgar Allan Poe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Johann von Goethe

The misconception with a lot of girls is that it takes two to three hours to be beautiful. I always tell girls allow yourself 30 minutes so that you can really enjoy the process, so that you can get to know you in the morning before the world gets to know you. – Tracy Balan, Girlfriend Intervention, “Sam, Trapped in Teen Fantasy World” (seas

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. – Karl Kraus

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. – John Ruskin

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. – Florenz Ziegfeld

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. – Ninon de l’Enclos

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. – John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

Beauty is the promise of happiness. – Stendhal

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick. – Gwyneth Paltrow

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are moments of beauty so intense that they will touch you for life. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart. – Nate Dircks