No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance.—John Ray.
An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty.—Burke.
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,—a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.—Cicero.
A lovely girl is above all rank.—Charles Buxton.
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.—Tuckerman.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.—Méré.
In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.—Mazzini.
Beauty is God's handwriting, a wayside sacrament.—Milton.
Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life.—Bignicout.
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.—Alphonse Karr.