Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Neil Gaiman

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

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
Jeanne Moreau

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Kinky Friedman

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
Van Morrison

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Nikos Kazantzakis

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Ninon de L'Enclos

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
Clay Aiken

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Christopher Marlowe