Famous Quotes

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Francis Bacon on Beauty

More quotes about Beauty

• "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

  Confucius on Beauty

• "To love beauty is to see light."

  Victor Hugo on Beauty

• "Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."

  Amanda Peet on Beauty

• "A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

  Anne Roiphe on Beauty

• "People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Beauty

More quotes by Francis Bacon

• "Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

• "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

• "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

• "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

• "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."