Quotes about beauty
144 quotes from 110 people
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Letters to MalcolmThink of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you, and be happy.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
