Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.—Gibbon.
What is beauty? Not the show
Of shapely limbs and features. No.
These are but flowers
That have their dated hours
To breathe their momentary sweets, then go.
'Tis the stainless soul within
That outshines the fairest skin.
—Sir A. Hunt.
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.—Socrates.
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.—G.A. Sala.
There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.—J. Petit-Senn.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.—Ouida.
Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power.—Richter.
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.—Raleigh.
It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.—Bacon.
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth.—Shaftesbury.