Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

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

I am a thing of beauty.
Frank Sinatra

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti

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

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank

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