Beauty - Beautiful Quotes

Money is the best cosmetic.

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

A young spring-tender girl combed her joyous hair in the midnight mirror ‘You are very ugly’ said the glass But on her lips hung a smile of dove-secret loveliness for only that morning, had not the blind boy said, ‘You are beautiful’?

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; […]

I have a left shoulder-blade that is a miracle of loveliness. People come miles to see it. My right elbow has a fascination that few can resist.

She is magnificently ugly – deliciously hideous… Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes, steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from Ipanema goes walking, And when she passes, Each one she passes goes “Aaahh!”

What ills from beauty spring.