"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference." - Aristotle

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express." - Francis Bacon

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite." - George Bancroft

"Exuberance is beauty." - William Blake

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time." - Albert Camus

"Beauty and folly are old companions." - Benjamin Franklin

"She got her good looks from her father - he's a plastic surgeon." - Groucho Marx

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny." - Socrates

"The perception of beauty is a moral test." - Henry David Thoreau, Journal

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." - Virginia Woolf

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - FRANCIS BACON, Essays

"If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents."
- ROBERT BROWNING, Fra Lippo Lippi

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes."
- LORD BYRON, She Walks in Beauty

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." - MARGARET WOLFE HUNGERFORD, Molly Bawn

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
- JOHN KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness."
- JOHN KEATS, Endymion

"Beauty is everlasting
And dust is for a time."
- MARIANNE MOORE, In Distrust of Merits

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance." - JOHN RUSKIN, The Stones of Venice

"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful." - lSAPPHO (fragment)

"Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman

"Beauty is momentary in the mind
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives."
- WALLACE STEVENS, Peter Quince at the Clavier

"I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after."
- WALLACE STEVENS, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

"Beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break."
- SARA TEASDALE, Vignettes Overseas: Capri

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." - MLEO TOLSTOY, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Nature, the vicaire of the almyghty lorde." - Chaucer, Geoffrey (c1343-1400) in 'The Parliament of Fowls', line 379

"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare." - Davies, W. H.

"It is very beautiful over there." - Edison, Thomas on his deathbed, describing a vision of the hereafter

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Einstein, Albert in 'What I Believe' 1930

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty." - Morley, Christopher