Beauty, Pearl S Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Love, Richard Rodgers

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

― Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

― Alan Hollinghurst (1954- ), The Line of Beauty

Beauty, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), The Little Prince

Beauty, Oscar Wilde

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

― Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), The Importance of Being Earnest

Beauty, Cynthia Hand

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

Beauty, Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

― Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Beauty, Mahatma Gandhi

True beauty consists in purity of heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Summer, Henry James

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

― Henry James (1843-1916)

Beauty, Western Proverb

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.

- Western Proverb