Quotes about beauty
144 quotes from 110 people
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)She is the sum of nature’s universe.
To her perfection all of beauty tends.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321La Vita Nuova (c. 1293), Chapter XIX, canzone “Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore”, lines 49–50 (tr. Barbara Reynolds)
Martin Amis1949–2023Playboy interview (2003)Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Thyrsis (1866), St. 2
Marcus Aurelius121–180IV, 20There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Of BeautyBeauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
Iain Banks1954–2013The State of the Art (1991), “State of the Art” (p. 128)To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 1: The Love-Light
Halle Berryborn 1966Suzanne Condie Lambert (October 9, 2008) “‘Esquire’ crowns Berry the sexiest woman alive”, The Arizona Republic, p. E6.
