What is Beauty?
Beauty is God’s handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.
– Charles Kingsley
ALL kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
~ Cervantes.
I think Cervantes got the measure of beauty just right.
Let us hear more from some others.
1001: What is Beauty
Ines dela Fressange
A beautiful woman is someone who pays a lot of attention to herself and knows what suits her.
– Vivienne Westwood
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
~Florenz Ziegfeld
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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.
— Gibbon.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H.G. Wells
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Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.
—Zimmermann
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
~Khalil Gibran
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BEAUTY in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.
~ Cervantes.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
– Stendhal
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Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
— G.A. Sala
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If eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
—Emerson.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm.
– Fontenelle
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It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.
— Bacon
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Keats spoke for all time when he said, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
— Thackeray
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Pretty is something you’re born with. But beautiful, that’s an equal opportunity adjective.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
– Aritotle.
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
~Ninon de L’Enclos
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There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
— J. Petit-Senn
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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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THE beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
– Cervantes
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There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
~John Erskine