Beauty Quotes

• "What is beauty? Not the show Of shapely limbs and features. No. These are but flowers That have their dated hours To breathe their momentary sweets, then go. 'Tis the stainless soul within That outshines the fairest skin."
  By: Sir A. Hunt
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• "A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien."
  By: Victor Hugo, Eviradnus (V)
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• "No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech."
  By: Thomas Hughes
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• "Take the whole sex together, and you find that those who have the strongest possession of men's hearts are not eminent for their beauty. You see it often happen that those who engage men to the greatest violence are such as those who are strangers to them would take to be remarkably defective for that end."
  By: John Hughes
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• "'T is a powerful sex; they were too strong for the first, the strongest, and the wisest man that was."
  By: James Howell (Howel)
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• "Sith Nature thus gave her the praise, To be the chiefest work she wrought, In faith, methink, some better ways On your behalf might well be sought, Than to compare, as ye have done, To match the candle with the sun."
  By: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sonnet to the Fair Geraldine
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• "Nothing is beautiful from every point of view. [Lat., Nihil est ab omni Parte beatum.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (II, 16, 27)
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• "O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely mother. [Lat., O matre pulchra filia pulchrior.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (I, 16, 1)
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• "So that what is a beautiful woman on top ends in a black and ugly fish. [Lat., Ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (l. 3)
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• "A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. VI, l. 22), (Pope's translation)
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• "Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice."
  By: Henry Home, Lord Kames
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• "An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first."
  By: Henry Home, Lord Kames
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• "Beauty drawes more then oxen."
  By: George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
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• "Many a temptation comes to us in find, gay colours that are but skin deep."
  By: Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Commentaries (Genesis, III)
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• "There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise."
  By: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans, Our Daily Paths
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• "I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem."
  By: Fitz-Greene Halleck
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