Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush. Bacon, Francis
Beauty is the first present nature gives to woman and the first it takes away. Méré, George Brossin
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Reade, Charles
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. Camus, Albert
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Keats, John
Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smile. Campbell. Thomas
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Bancroft, George
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Bierce, Ambrose
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. Dryden, John
