The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

19.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

20.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

21.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

22.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

26.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

27.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

28.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

29.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

30.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

31.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

33.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

34.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

36.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

37.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

38.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

39.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

41.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

42.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

46.

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

47.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

48.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

49.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

50.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.