1. “If this cursed and fallen world holds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradise that's gladly waiting for me.”

2. “If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”

Benjamin Franklin

3. “I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”

Oscar Wilde

4. “The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder

5. “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”

Edgar Allan Poe

6. “Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”

7. “Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

8. “There is beauty in simplicity.”

9. “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”

Mahatma Gandhi

10. “Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good!”

11. “Another person's beauty is not the absence of your own.”

12. “That is her style of beauty.”

George Orwell

13. “Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”

Marcel Proust

14. “That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.”

Denzel Whitaker

15. “Wake up your soul to the beauty of a sunrise.”

16. “It's not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.”

17. “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

Anne Frank

18. “But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”

Anne Brontë

19. “There is beauty in becoming, but there is also beauty to be found in un-becoming. They are equally important.”

20. “Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.”

21. “I don't want to wait until I'm 73 to embrace my body. To look back and think of my beauty: How did I miss it? Let's not wait another moment.”

22. “The beauty of life is that it is full of uncertainties.”

23. “If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. “Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.”

25. “My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold, my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead, love, I love you because you are clear and dark.”

Pablo Neruda

26. “Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

Alexander Pope

27. “Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without orator.”

William Shakespeare

28. “They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets.”

29. “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”

Anatole France

30. “How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.”

31. “The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.”

William Shakespeare

32. “Our thoughts and feelings make us whereas love and beauty sustain us.”

33. “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”

34. “Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

Mary Wollstonecraft

35. “There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.”

Blaise Pascal

36. “Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love.”

37. “…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?”

Jane Austen

38. “Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. “It is up to you to see the beauty in everyday things.”

40. “Beauty is a thing of might and dread. Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”

Kahlil Gibran

41. “Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.”

Lauren Hutton

42. “Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”

43. “Real beauty isn't about symmetry or weight or makeup; it's about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own.”

44. “Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”

Leo Tolstoy

45. “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

Oscar Wilde

46. “You don't know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

47. “She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.”

48. “Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!”

Amy Leigh Mercree

49. “There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.”

E. M. Forster

50. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

Clive Barker

51. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

Rumi

52. “Happy girls are the prettiest.”

Audrey Hepburn

53. “Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

54. “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

Oscar Wilde

55. “Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.”

56. “You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.”

Jane Austen

57. “Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.”