Idea Book
Beauty

Beautiful Day  U2
Beyond Beautiful  Aerosmith

Beauty is no quality in things themselves:  it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them  David Hume

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport.  But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.  Julie Burchill

Things are beautiful if you love them  Jean Anouilh

A thing of beauty is a joy forever  John Keats

All high beauty has a moral element in it  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty's but skin deep  John Davies

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face  Kahlil Gibran

Character contributes to beauty.  It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.  A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.  Jacqueline Bisset

The highest Beauty should be plain set  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything on earth [is] beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity  Anton Chekhov

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished  La Rouchefoucauld

Fair Faces need no Paint  Thomas Fuller

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion  Francis Bacon

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way  Karl Kraus

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.  But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.  Marie Stopes

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness and beauty are by-products.  Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.  George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more moving than beauty which is unaware of itself, except for ugliness which is  Robert Mallet

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder  Margaret W. Hungerford

Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty  Latin proverb

Beauty is not caused. It is.  Emily Dickinson

True beauty consists in purity of heart  Mahatma Gandhi

Beauty is the gift of God  Aristotle