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

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
Miley Cyrus

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Wallace Stevens

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon