And all the carnal beauty of my wife
Is but skin-deep.
Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba, vellem.
Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.
I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
Auxilium non leve vultus habet.
A pleasing countenance is no slight advantage.
Raram facit misturam cum sapientia forma.
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
O quanta species cerebrum non habet!
O that such beauty should be so devoid of understanding!
Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
When the candles are out all women are fair.
| author = Plutarch
| work = Conjugal Precepts.
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| num = 5
| text = <poem>’Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
No longer shall the bodice aptly lac'd
From thy full bosom to thy slender waist,
That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.
Prior
| work = Henry and Emma. L. 429.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join,
We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Nimis in veritate, et simihtudinis quam
pulchritudinis amantior.
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather
than of beauty.
Quintlian
| work = De Institutione Oratoria. XII.
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| text = <poemFair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer:
Rare is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer;
Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter
And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.
Richard Realf
| work = Indirection.
Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy, when they love?
Nicholas Rows
| work = The Fair Penitent. Act
III. Sc.l.
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| num = 15
| text = Remember that the most beautiful things in
the world are the most useless; peacocks and
lilies, for instance.
Rusktn.
The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but
a skin deep saying.
Rusktn
| work = Personal Beauty.
| seealso = (See also Henry)
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| text = <poem>The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes
is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the
body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand
| work = Handsome Lawrence. Ch. I.
All things of beauty are not theirs alone
Who hold the fee; but unto him no less
Who can enjoy, than unto them who own,
Are sweetest uses given to possess,
J. G. Saxe
| work = The Beautiful.
Damals war nichts heilig, als das Schone.
In days of yore [in ancient Greece] nothing
was sacred but the beautiful.
Schtller
| work = Die Gotter Griechenlands. St. 6.
Die Wahrheit ist vorhanden fur den Weisen.
Die Schonheit fur ein fiihlend Herz.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the
feeling heart.
Schiller
| work = Dow Carlos. IV. 21. 186.
Das ist das Loos des Schonen auf der Erde!
That is the lot of the beautiful on earth.
Schiller
| work = Wallenstein's Tod. IV. 12. 26.
And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace,
Of finer form, or lovelier face!
Scott
| work = Lady of the Lake. Canto I. St. 18.
There was a soft and pensive grace,
A cast of thought upon her face,
That suited well the forehead high,
The eyelash dark, and downcast eye.
Scarrr
| work = Rokeby. Canto IV. St. 5.
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses,
Flung like the rose of dawn across the sea,
Alone can flush the exalted consciousness
With shafts of sensible divinity
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Light of the world, essential loveliness.
Alan Seeger
| work = Ode to Natural Beauty. St. 2.
