Beauty

1. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
                                                                   -Lady Blessington

2. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
                                                 -Ninon De L'Enclos

3. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
                                                                -Khalil Gibran

4. A thing of beauty is joy forever.
                                         -Keats, Endymion

5. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
                                -Keats, Ode on a Grecian
                                           Um

6. She walks in beauty like night
    Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
    And all that's best of dark and bright
    Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
    Thus mellowed to that tender light
    Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
                                                 -Byron, She Walks in
                                                  Beauty

7. Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away.
               -Mere

8. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
                                                   -Charles Reade

9. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
                                                                     -Ruskin