Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.African ProverbTraditional attribution
Beauty Quotes and Beauty Proverbs
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
Beauty is the gift of God.AristotleAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Handsome is as handsome does.J.R.R. TolkienAttributed in the original GADEL collection
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.Ivan PaninAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.ConfuciusAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.Kahlil GibronAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Modesty is the beauty of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
He who marries beauty marries trouble.Nigerian ProverbTraditional attribution
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.AnonymousTraditional attribution
Let the beauty we love become the good we do.RumiAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Life is full of beauty.Ashley SmithAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.AnonymousTraditional attribution
It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.AnonymousTraditional attribution
Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.Grey LivingstonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.Helen KellerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A good character is real beauty that never fades.Burmese ProverbTraditional attribution
A woman's polite devotion is her greatest beauty.African ProverbTraditional attribution
Time has no respect for beauty.Polish ProverbTraditional attribution
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.David HumeAttributed in the original GADEL collection
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.Ninon de L'EnclosAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Beauty is power, a smile is its sword.Charles ReadeAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.Ralph Waldo EmersonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.AnonymousTraditional attribution
The difference between pretty and beautiful is-pretty is temporal-whereas beautiful is eternal.AnonymousTraditional attribution
The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.Don Williams, JrAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A woman gets thirty percent of her beauty from nature and seventy percent from makeup.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
The one-eyed person is a beauty in the country of the blind.Arab ProverbTraditional attribution
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.Albert SchweitzerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.George W. RussellAttributed in the original GADEL collection
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.Rabindrath TagoreAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.ProverbTraditional attribution
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
Beauty will not season your soup.Polish ProverbTraditional attribution
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.Martin BuxbaumAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Beauty won't make the kettle boil.Irish ProverbTraditional attribution
It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
Beauty is a fading flower.Danish ProverbTraditional attribution
Original collection & source
Original title: Beauty Quotes and Beauty Proverbs
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