What is beauty?

A very tricky question, indeed! Every person has his/her own definition of beauty. While scanning the quotes on beauty, I tried to find a common definition, but couldn’t succeed.

So, instead of fretting over our failure to find a consensual definition of beauty, let’s relish the quotes.

• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius
• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ~Francis Bacon
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ~John Keats
• There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. ~Conrad Hall
• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ~Aristotle
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ~Socrates

• Beauty is whatever gives joy. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Beauty is worse than wine. It intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley
• In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare. ~Homer
• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Beauty without expression is boring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. ~Loretta Young

• Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ~Anne Frank
• I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within. ~Christy Turlington
• Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. ~Paulo Coelho
• The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. ~Audrey Hepburn
• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Khalil Gibran
• Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. ~Coco Chanel

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• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. ~H. G. Wells
• The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ~Havelock Ellis
• Beauty has a lot to do with character. ~Kevyn Aucoin
• Outer beauty turns the head, but inner beauty turns the heart. ~Helen J. Russell
• Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates. ~Kate Angell

• What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside? ~Jess C. Scott
• She walks in beauty, like the night
  Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
  And all that’s best of dark and bright
  Meet in her aspect and her eyes…
  ~Lord Byron
• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Steinbeck

Enough for today! What is your favorite beauty quote? Please let me know in the comments section.