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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates470–399 BC
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne1572–1631Elegies, No. 2, The Anagram, line 27
- Love
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?
ADAnnie Dillard1945–2026
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
Fulke Greville1554–1628
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MBMarguerite Gardiner Blessington1789–1849Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Desultory Thoughts and Reflections (1839), p. 90
- Happiness
If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Love
To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873
- Art
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790