Plato on Beauty
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue t
Sloan Wilson on Beauty
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus on Beauty
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
John Constable on Beauty
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Henry Havelock Ellis on Beauty
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Teena Booth on Beauty
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Sir Francis Bacon on Beauty
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
R. Buckminster Fuller on Beauty
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Petrarch on Beauty
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.