Beauty
Quotes on Beauty
O Beauty, so ancient and so new!
Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian.
The ideal has many names, and Beauty is but one of them.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian
Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
Ambrose Philips (1674-1749) English poet, politician
If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Peter York (b. 1950) British journalist
