“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
“Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.”
“There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.”
“Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
“I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]”
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”
“What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.”
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.”
“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.”
“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.”
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
“All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.”
“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”
“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?”