Beauty Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about beauty.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I have always believed that the good was nothing but the beautiful put into action.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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We call beautiful that which is praised by the newspaper and which produces a lot of money.

Nothing possible is beautiful, only the real is beautiful.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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The knowledge of beauty is the true path and the first step towards the understanding of things that are good.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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The beauty of the fruit is in proportion to the time that elapses between the seed and the harvest.

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

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The charm of beauty lies in its mystery; if we unravel the subtle weave that links its elements, the entire essence evaporates.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Beauty is a letter of recommendation that wins our hearts in advance.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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It's not wrong to be beautiful; what's wrong is the obligation to be so.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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Excessively beautiful women are less surprising on the second day.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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Even if you pluck off its petals, you won't take away the beauty of the flower.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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The desire to please is to the spirit what adornment is to beauty.