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

Whenever at a party I have been in the mood to study fools I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Without modesty woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

As we grow old the beauty steals inward.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs & flaming hair, But Desire Gratified Plants fruits of life & beauty there.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . . Passion and expression are beauty itself.

That's one of the nice things. I mean part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

I also became close to nature and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness.

Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Sleep sleep beauty bright Dreaming in the joys of night, Sleep sleep, in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself and is complete in itself, praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

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

Beauty is worse than wine it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable you can't possibly act and as I only care about acting I think beauty can be a great handicap.

To love beauty is to see light.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband that of an ugly person in his scholarship and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom / On thee shall press no ponderous tomb.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble, in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

As a white candle In a holy place So is the beauty Of an aged face

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty is everything!

If there is righteousness in the heart there will be beauty in the character.

The beauty of life depends upon our good habits.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization neither art nor civilization is secure

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Teach us that wealth is not elegance that profusion is not magnificence that splendor is not beauty.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Wisdom, I know, is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous and illy bears the presence of a rival.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.

Cherish your visions, cherish your ideals, cherish the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts for out of them will grow delightful conditions all heavenly environment, of these if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built.

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

There is in true beauty as in courage something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it, that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

Beauty attracts us men, but if like an armed magnet it is pointed beside with gold and silver it attracts with tenfold power.

Grace is in garments in movements in manners, beauty in the nude and in forms. This is true of bodies, but when we speak of feelings beauty is in their spirituality and grace in their moderation.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

In LA where I live it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical, the ideal corresponds to the idea and beauty to form, hence idea and substance are cognate.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire of beauty.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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.

I would define in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him.

The head Sublime the heart Pathos the genitals Beauty the hands & feet Proportion.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea because we have heard it and because our faith tells us so that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls or who dwells within them or how precious they are those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

He possessed beauty without vanity strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts as for that subtle something that quality of air that emanation from old trees that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

The architect should strive continually to simplify, the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.