Top 73 Beauty Quotes

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Beauty is very subjective. What is beautiful for one person isn’t necessarily beautiful for another person. With that in mind, check out the top 73 beauty quotes.

#73 – 70. Beauty Quotes

73. A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. – English Proverb

72. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. – Edgar Allan Poe

70. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

#69 – 60. Beauty Quotes

69. There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. G.K. Chesterton

68. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

67. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. – Aristotle

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

65. Beauty is only skin deep. – Sir Thomas Overbury

64. Kindness is like snow – It beautifies everything it covers. Kahlil Gibran

63. Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt. Immanuel Kant

62. Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche

61. There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. – Charles Baudelaire

60. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. – Al Bernstein

#59 – 50. Beauty Quotes

59. Do not dissect a rainbow. In other words, do not destroy a beautiful phenomenon by overanalyzing it. – Denise LaFrance

58. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

57. Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. Maya Angelou

55. Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. Thich Nhat Hanh

54. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

53. Real beauty is to be true to oneself. – Laetitia Casta

52. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. – Greek Proverb

51. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran

50. Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

#49 – 40. Beauty Quotes

49. Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle

48. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa

47. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. – Francis Bacon

46. Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. – Jean Anouilh

45. Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty –excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable –should persist after the beauty was gone. – Mary Arnim

44. The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – Max Beerbohm

43. Pleasing ware is half sold. – George Herbert

42. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens

41. Beauty is a nectar which intoxicates the soul. T.C. Henley

40. I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. – Tyra Banks

#39 – 30. Beauty Quotes

39. Outer beauty is a gift. Inner beauty is an accomplishment. Randi G. Fine

38. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. – Anne Bront

36. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. – John Ray

35. Beauty is strangely various. There is the beauty of light and joy and strength exulting; but there is also the beauty of shade, of sorrow and sadness, and of humility oppressed. Arnold Bennett

34. Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. Sophia Loren

33. Beauty is the promise of happiness. Stendhal

32. Things are beautiful if you love them. – Jean Anouilh

31. I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness. Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel)

30. The eyes are the windows of the soul. – Thomas Phaer

#29 – 20. Beauty Quotes

29. Beauty is a good letter of introduction. – Proverb

28. The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

27. Beauty is visible music. T.C. Henley

26. Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you. I am I. Osho

25. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. – George Bancroft

24. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman

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

22. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats

21. Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful. Kailash Satyarthi

20. It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. Frank McCourt

#19 – 10. Beauty Quotes

19. If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. – Frank Lloyd Wright

18. Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. Alice Walker

17. Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. – James Allen

16. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde

15. Beauty is man’s voucher of immorality. T.C. Henley

14. 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

13. When was the last time you just closed your eyes and just listened? Maxime Lagacé

12. There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison

11. There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. Shannon L. Alder

10. The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. – Hazrat Inayat Khan

#9 – 1. Beauty Quotes

9. What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. – Father Andre

8. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon

7. Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. Sophia Loren

6. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

5. Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. – Proverb

4. The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. – Proverb

3. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.  – Francis Bacon

2. Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. – Jean Anouilh

1. 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

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