The young prince in velvet gathered in lovely domesticity around the queen amid the hush of rich draperies may presently grow up to be Pedro the Cruel or Charles the Mad, but the moment of beauty was there.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be In the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

And his heart was stirred, it felt a father's kindness: such an emotion as the possessor of beauty can inspire in one who has offered himself up in spirit to create beauty.

beauty gets the best of it in this world.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.