Beauty Quote by Giacomo Casanova

“Beauty without wit offers love nothing but the material enjoyment of its physical charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind,…

— Giacomo Casanova

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

— Douglas Horton

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

— William Wycherley

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...

— Plotinus

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent…

— Anonymous

Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of…

— Anne Mallory

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts.

— Anonymous

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

— Mason Cooley

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

— Umberto Eco

True beauty, I realized,is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it

— Terri Cheney

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on…

— Claude Debussy