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
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
– Oscar Wilde
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
– John Ruskin
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
– Chinese Proverb
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
– Pope
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms — will it return to my body when they scatter?
– Kotomichi
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits.
– Erasmus
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
– Ninon de L’Enclos
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
– Edward Gibbon
Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women’s modesty generally increases with their beauty.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
– Helen Rowland
Beauty is only skin deep,but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
– Kin Hubbard
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
– Christopher Morley
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
– John Keats
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
– Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
– George Brossin Mere