“Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate with thine own hues all thou dost shine upon.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · BEAUTY
Read 200 of the best beauty quotes on inner beauty, true beauty and the beauty of the world from Plato, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Kahlil Gibran and more.
“Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate with thine own hues all thou dost shine upon.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty.”
John Ruskin
“Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”
Oscar Wilde
“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.”
Oscar Wilde
“The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so.”
Victor Hugo
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Beauty crowds me till I die.”
Emily Dickinson
“I died for Beauty - but was scarce adjusted in the Tomb, when One who died for Truth, was lain in an adjoining Room.”
Emily Dickinson
“Under the arch of Life, where love and death, terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw Beauty enthroned.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Handsome is that handsome does.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:30)
“Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.”
The Bible (1 Peter 3:3-4)
“For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 16:7)
“One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; to behold the beauty of the Lord.”
The Bible (Psalm 27:4)
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.”
The Bible (Isaiah 52:7)
“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:1)
“Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.”
The Bible (Psalm 96:6)