Beautiful Quotes on Beauty, Life, People, Nature and More

What is it about beautiful quotes that keeps us reading them over and over. . . ? Honestly, I can never get enough beautiful quotes, they’re like some sort of emotional / spiritual / intellectual nicotine. . .  actually, they’re worse than nicotine — I have that up years ago but can’t give up on these beautiful quotes XD

Anyway, here are some more of my favourite. .  .

Beautiful Quotes on Life, People, Nature and other subjects

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir

 

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.  ~George W. Russell beautiful quotes on life

 

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.  ~Ninon de L’Enclos, beautiful quotes on life

 

 

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.  ~Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”

 

 

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  ~Martin Buxbaum

 

 

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.  ~Author Unknown

 

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~Chinese Proverb

 

 

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.  ~Roseanne

 

 

I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.  ~Karl Lagerfeld beautiful quotes on life

 

 

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.  ~John Ruskin, The Stones ofVenice, 1851

 

 

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.  ~Mike Dolan,  beautiful quotes on life

 

 

Beauty is the promise of happiness.  ~Stendhal

 

 

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin.  That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.  ~Gwyneth Paltrow

 

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.  ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

 

 

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.  ~Leo Tolstoy beautiful quotes on life

 

 

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

 

 

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.  ~Edgar Allan Poe beautiful quotes on life

 

 

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.  ~Johann von Goethe

 

 

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.  ~Karl Kraus

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.  ~Simone Weil

 

 

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!  ~LoganPearsall Smith  beautiful quotes on life

 

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Beauty and folly are generally companions.  ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish beautiful quotes on life

 

 

May she be granted beauty and yet not

Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,

Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,

Being made beautiful overmuch,

Consider beauty a sufficient end,

Lose natural kindness and maybe

The heart-revealing intimacy

That chooses right, and never find a friend….

~WilliamButlerYeats, “A Prayer for my Daughter”

 

 

 

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.  ~John Ruskin beautiful quotes on life

 

 

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.  ~Rabindrath Tagore

 

 

 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.  ~Confucius beautiful quotes on life

 

 

 

 

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.  ~George Eliot beautiful quotes on life

 

 

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  ~Kahlil Gibran

 

 

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring.  Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill.  In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.  ~Tertullian

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,

Then beauty is its own excuse for being

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodora”

 

 

Close your eyes and see the beauty.  ~Author Unknown

 

 

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.  ~Author Unknown

 

 

 

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.  ~Florenz Ziegfeld

 

 

Do I love you because you’re beautiful,

Or are you beautiful because I love you?

~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

 

 

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. ~Ninon de l’Enclos

 

 

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.  ~Dr. SunWolf,

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