Beauty 


Nothing makes a woman more beautiful
than the belief she is beautiful. 
•Sophia Loren
 


Nothing's beautiful from 
every point of view. 
•Horace 



Beauty is the first present 
nature gives to women and 
the first it takes away. 
•George Brossin Méré 



...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. 
If you have it you don't need to have
anything else; and if you don't have it, it 
doesn't much matter what else you have. 
•James Matthew Barrie 



In every man's heart there
is a secret nerve that answers
to the vibrations of beauty. 
•Christopher Morley 



Beauty is power; 
a smile is its sword. 
•Charles Reade 



Beauty is only skin deep, 
but it's a valuable asset if you're
poor or haven't any sense. 
•Kin Hubbard 



Beauty is not caused. It is. 
•Emily Dickinson 




Beauty is an outward gift 
which is seldom despised, 
except by those to whom 
it has been refused. 
•Edward Gibbon 



My heart that was rapt away by
the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return
to my body when they scatter? 
•Kotomichi 



Beauty's tears are lovelier
than her smile. 
•Campbell
 


Champagne is the only wine a woman 
can drink and still remain beautiful. 
•Mme. de Pompadour
 


Conceit is to nature what paint is 
to beauty; it is not only needless, 
but impairs what it would improve. 
•Pope
 


Delusions are often functional. 
A mother's opinions about her 
children's beauty, intelligence,
goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her
from drowning them at birth.
•Lazarus Long
 


Honesty coupled to beauty is to
have honey a sauce to sugar. 
•Shakespeare
 


It is good that the young are beautiful;
it is the only advantage they have. 
•The Duchess of Windsor
 


Love that has nothing but beauty 
to keep it in good health is short 
lived, and apt to have ague fits. 
•Erasmus
 


                         The beautiful are never desolate,                            
But someone always loves them.
•Bailey 



Beauty, n: the power by which a woman
charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
•Ambrose Bierce 



Everything beautiful has its 
moment and then passes away. 
•Luis Cernuda 



Beauty without grace is the 
hook without the bait. 
•Ralph Waldo Emerson 



Plain women know more about
men than beautiful ones do. 
But beautiful women don't
need to know about men. 
It's the men who have to 
know about beautiful women.
•Katherine Hepburn
 


A bachelor never quite gets
over the idea that he is a thing 
of beauty and a boy forever. 
•Helen Rowland
 


There is no cosmetic for
beauty like happiness. 
•Countess of Blessington
 


Truth exists for the wise, 
beauty for the feeling heart. 
•Johann von Schiller
 


When a girl ceases to blush, 
she has lost the most powerful
charm of her beauty.
•Gregory I
 


The average man is more interested 
in a woman who is interested in him 
than he is in a woman,
any woman, with beautiful legs. 
•Marlene Dietrich
 


Beauty is truth, truth beauty, 
that is all Ye know on earth, 
and all ye need to know.
•John Keats 



I'm tired of all this nonsense about
beauty being only skin deep. 
That's deep enough. What do you
want, an adorable pancreas? 
•Jean Kerr