"All the goodness, beauty and perfection of a human being
belong to the one who knows how to recognize these
qualities."
Georgette Leblanc
Comments: How is beauty possessed, by being born
with it, or being able to see it in others?
"O, beauty, are you not enough? / Why am I crying after
love?"
Sara Teasdale
Comments: If all that mattered to me was looks, I could have a date every night of the week. So why do I look for something more?
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only
skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want-an adorable
pancreas?"
Jean Kerr
Comments: Meaningless to me, but funny ;)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
The Duchess
Comments: The definition of beauty is not one
set thing, what I see as beautiful another may find repulsive,
and vice versa. So how attractive something is, is not dependent
upon the "thing" itself, it is dependent upon the
tastes of the one that encounters it.
"I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty,- / I woke, and
found that life was Duty."
Ellen H. Hooper
Comments: There are some things which we may
want to do, they may be our fondest hopes and dreams, but in the
reality of this world something else may be more important.
"The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is
that the all-American boy can see better than he can think"
Farrah Fawcett Majors
Comments: I'm screwed, I'm accounted a good
thinker, but I apparently need glasses.
"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
Pearl S. Buck
Comments: I disagree with this. There is beauty
in order; it's calm, relaxing, unassuming, and non-threatening.
I'll always prefer the beauty of the passions of chaos though;
flamboyant, luminous, fearless, and truely alive. It's far less
cold than order.
"The man who doesn't love me / I love twice: / once for his
beauty, again / for his sound sense."
Nancy Mairs
Comments: It requries no interpretation.
"Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward
form of Truth."
Grace Aguilar
Comments: Deception is bad ;)
"Your youth is like a water-wetted stone,
Bright with a beauty that is not its own."
Frances Cornford
Comments: I won't even try....poetic though
"If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high
level of animal cunning."
Peter York
Comments: Never trust a pretty girl, she'll bite
you.
"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a
way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their
beauty."
Timothy Radcliffe
Comments: Amen brother! You tell it!
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
Edmund Burke
Comments: Who can resist being the Knight in
Shining Armor?
"Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little
people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no."
Aristotle
Comments: What a crock....I think toga boy was
drunk when he came up with this.
"Beauty, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and
terrifies a husband."
Ambrose Bierce
Comments: *snicker*
"Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves
a moral charm."
Emerson
Comments: People are more attractive if they
have substance instead of just appearance.
"'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all."
Alexander Pope
Comments: There is no one thing that makes a
person, place, or thing beautiful, it is the combination of all
parts of that thing that make it a sight to behold.
"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that
is attractive without zest."
Christian Dior
Comments: Twin sisters, each perfect in face,
and form. Which one is beautiful, the one that smiles, and
laughs, or the one that stares blankly at the wall? It is the
spirit of the individual, more than thier appearance, that makes
htem beautiful
"Beauty is the lover's gift."
William Congreve
Comments: If someone loves you, then they must
find you beautiful in some way, they give you the right to think
of yourself as beautiful, because at least one person agrees.
"She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and
starry skies: And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her
aspect and her eyes."
Lord Byron
Comments: She's a hottie.
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
Lord Byron
Comments: Love is a higher form of friendship.
"Nothing can confound A wise man more than laughter from a
dunce."
Lord Byron
Comments: Laugh at the know-it-alls and watch
them try to figure it out ;)
"Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty
tribes, the Bores and Bored."
Lord Byron
Comments: Self explanitory.
"Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste."
Lord Byron
Comments: And be at my house at 8, we're going
dancing.
"Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; /A Book's a
Book, altho' there's nothing in't."
Lord Byron
Comments: Ego trip!!!!
"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure."
Lord Byron
Comments: Sometimes you can have a lot of fun by
colouring outside the lines.
