Beauty Quotes

• "Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. [Lat., Raram facit misturam cum sapientia forma.]"
  By: Petronius (Caius Petronius Arbiter), Satyricon (XCIV)
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• "There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman."
  By: Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
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• "You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 8, 54)
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• "I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Amorum (bk. III, 11, 41)
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• "Beauty is a frail good."
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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• "A pleasing face is no small advantage."
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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• "And all the carnal beauty of my wife Is but skin-deep."
  By: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife
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• "There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married."
  By: Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee)
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• "Hast thou left thy blue course in heaven, golden-haired son of the sky! The west has opened its gates; the bed of thy repose is there. The waves come, to behold thy beauty. They lift their trembling heads. They see thee lovely in thy sleep; they shrink away with fear. Rest, in thy shadowy cave, O sun! let thy return be in joy."
  By: Ossian, Carric-Thura (st. 1)
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• "And should you visit now the seats of bliss, You need not wear another form but this."
  By: John Oldham, To Madam L.E. on her Recovery (115)
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• "Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate, By every breach in the fair lodging made, Its blest inhabitant is more displayed."
  By: John Oldham, To Madam L.E. on her Recovery (106)
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• "An' fair was her sweet bodie, Yet fairer was her mind.-- Menie's the queen among the flowers, The wale o' womankind."
  By: Robert Nicoll, Menie
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• "Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."
  By: George Jean Nathan
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• "To weave a garland for the rose, And think thus crown'd 'twould lovelier be, Were far less vain than to suppose That silks and gems add grace to thee."
  By: Thomas Moore, Songs from the Greek Anthology--To Weave a Garland
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• "Not more the rose, the queen of flowers, Outblushes all the bloom of bower, Than she unrivall'd grace discloses; The sweetest rose, where all are roses."
  By: Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon (ode LXVI)
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