Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest. Goethe.

Beauty is never a delusion. Hawthorne.

Beauty is the flowering of virtue. Gr. Pr.

Beauty is the highest principle and the highest aim of art. Goethe.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. Emerson. 35

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michael Angelo.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Keats.

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both holder and the beholder. Zimmermann.

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; / Both most are valued where they best are known. Lyttelton.

Beauty lives with kindness. Two Gen. of 40 Ver., iv. 2.