“Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate with thine own hues all thou dost shine upon.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Beauty Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · BEAUTY
Beauty Quotes
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.
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
Edgar Allan Poe
PoetryArt
“Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
YouthSoul
“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SimplicityFunction
“The love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TasteArt
“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
Henry David Thoreau
CharacterPerception
“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty.”
John Ruskin
ContrastContext
“Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.”
Oscar Wilde
GeniusPower Of Beauty
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”
Oscar Wilde
AppearancesWitty
“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.”
Oscar Wilde
Eternal BeautyTime
“The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so.”
Victor Hugo
ValueUsefulness
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Kahlil Gibran
Inner BeautyHeart
“It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.”
Kahlil Gibran
SoulPassion
“Beauty crowds me till I die.”
Emily Dickinson
WonderEmotion
“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
TruthDevotion
“Under the arch of Life, where love and death, terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw Beauty enthroned.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
LifeMystery
“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
FaithGratitude
“Handsome is that handsome does.”
Oliver Goldsmith
CharacterActions
“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:30)
Inner BeautyFaith
“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)
Inner BeautyHumility
“For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 16:7)
HeartAppearances
“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)
FaithDevotion
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.”
The Bible (Isaiah 52:7)
KindnessPeace
“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:1)
FlowersRomance
“Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.”
The Bible (Psalm 96:6)
StrengthFaith