Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
David Herbert Lawrence

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
David Herbert Lawrence

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H. P. Lovecraft

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom Stoppard

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

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Lord Chesterfield

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
Anthony Kiedis

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin

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

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
John Galsworthy