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Beauty Quotes - Page 45

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Homer (1822). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.163

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays--scientific, political and speculative”, p.424

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.163, Courier Corporation

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2254, e-artnow

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues

E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume (1772). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An. inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.183

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.380, Penguin

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Benjamin Disraeli (1976). “The Works: Lothair ; 1”