“Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one.”
Socrates
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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.
“All that is beautiful is difficult.”
Plato
EffortWisdom
“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.”
Plotinus
LightMystery
“Everything which is in any way beautiful is beautiful in itself, and terminates in itself, not having praise as part of itself.”
Marcus Aurelius
Self-WorthTrue Beauty
“Even the things which come secondarily after the things produced by nature have something in them pleasing and attractive.”
Marcus Aurelius
NatureImperfection
“Three things are needed for beauty: wholeness, harmony, and radiance.”
Thomas Aquinas
HarmonyDefinition
“The business of laying on the colours follows the preparation of the plain ground.”
Confucius
FoundationCharacter
“I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.”
Confucius
VirtueHuman Nature
“Colour's five hues from th' eyes their sight will take; music's five notes the ears as deaf can make.”
Lao Tzu
ExcessSimplicity
“Mao Ch'iang and Li Chi were accounted by men to be most beautiful, but at the sight of them fish plunged deep down in the water, and birds soared high in the air.”
Chuang Tzu
PerspectiveRelativity
“Beauty is the gift of God.”
Aristotle
BlessingFaith
“And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.”
The Bible (Psalm 90:17)
BlessingFaith
“To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning.”
The Bible (Isaiah 61:3)
HopeHealing
“Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.”
The Bible (Psalm 50:2)
PerfectionLight
“Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”
The Bible (Psalm 29:2)
HolinessFaith
“I am black, but comely.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 1:5)
Self-LoveConfidence
“So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty.”
The Bible (Psalm 45:11)
AttractionRomance
“As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.”
The Bible (Proverbs 11:22)
WisdomCharacter
“Ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.”
The Bible (Matthew 23:27)
AppearancesHypocrisy
“Beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks.”
William Shakespeare
RomanceAdmiration
“Beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melteth into blood.”
William Shakespeare
AttractionPower Of Beauty
“For beauty lives with kindness.”
William Shakespeare
KindnessInner Beauty
“From fairest creatures we desire increase, that thereby beauty's rose might never die.”
William Shakespeare
LegacyEternal Beauty
“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, whose action is no stronger than a flower?”
William Shakespeare
ImpermanenceTime
“O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!”
William Shakespeare
HumanityWonder