Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore De Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Cat Stevens

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London

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

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. Jerome

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Emile Zola

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
David Hume