Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.
As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.
I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?
How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.
No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.
A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price
