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Quotes About Beauty

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
~ Remy de Gourmont
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
~ Heinrich Heine
Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.
~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.
~ John Carroll
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
~ Stendhal
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
~ Warren Farrell
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
~ William Shakespeare
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.
~ William Wordsworth
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
The man of humanity delights in mountains
~ Confucius
A man posing for a painting.
~ David Hume
A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.
~ Franz Hartmann
By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.
~ Georges Bataille
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
~ William Butler Yeats
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.
~ Alejo Carpentier
I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.
~ Evangeline Lilly
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
~ Jilly Cooper
A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.
~ Klaus Nomi
I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.
~ Lady Randolph Churchill
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan