Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Gibbon, Edward
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 nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton, John
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Reade, Charles
Beauty is the first present nature gives to woman and the first it takes away. Méré, George Brossin
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Keats, John
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 itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Bancroft, George
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
