Admiration Quote by John Milton

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

— John Milton

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of…

— Christopher Morley

Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...

— Emily Dickinson

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

— Truman Capote

“It is quite edifying to hear women speculate upon the worthlessness and the duration of beauty. But though virtue is a much finer thing,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

— Kate Elliott

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

— Robin McKinley

Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

— Mason Cooley

“the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes, of insipid,…

— Rhoda Broughton

“Yet beauty is a shallow thing. So fleeting. Strength, intelligence, spirit, these things can be far more appealing than what lies on the surface…

— Kyra Dune

“The sense of beauty puts a brake upon destruction, by representing its object as irreplaceable. When the world looks back at me with my…

— Roger Scruton