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50 Quotes about Beauty – Remarkable Words of Wisdom

Beauty has many facets. For example, both Edgar Allan Poe and Karl Lagerfeld said that there is no beauty without “strangeness”.

What do you think ‘beauty’ is? Is there such a thing as ‘universal beauty’?

Our collection of wise and noteworthy quotes and proverbs about beauty shows a picture how the attempts to define beauty developed over centuries.

Read what philosophers, writers, painters, naturalists and physicists said about beauty. Our collection of great words is sorted chronologically by birth year of the unforgettable originator. Enjoy!

Beauty lies
in the eyes
of the beholder.

Plato
(c. 428 – 348 BC, Greek philosopher, as well as mathematician)

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

(551 – 479 BC, Chinese teacher and philosopher)

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder - Plato

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Publius Ovidius Naso,
known as Ovid

(43 BC – AD 17/18, Roman poet)

Rare is the union
of beauty and purity.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis,
known in English as Juvenal

(active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, Roman poet)

Let the beauty
of what you love
be
what you do.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
more popularly simply as Rūmī

(1207 – 1273, Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, and theologian)

Beauty surrounds us,
but usually we need
to be walking in a garden
to know it.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
more popularly simply as Rūmī

(1207 – 1273, Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, and theologian)

Beauty awakens
the soul to act.

Durante degli Alighieri,
simply called Dante

(c. 1265 – 1321, major Italian poet)

Rarely do great beauty
and great virtue
dwell together.

Francesco Petrarca,
commonly anglicized as Petrarch

(1304 – 1374, Italian scholar and poet)

What beauty is,
I know not,
though it adheres
to many things.

Albrecht Dürer

(1471 – 1528, German painter, mathematician, and theorist)

milk thistles caught at the end of their livesThe autumn of beauty is still beautiful.
Latin Proverb

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