Ovid Quotes About Beauty

Quotes about: Beauty

• Beauty is a fragile gift.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Fragile

• A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Beauty, Depressing

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Wine, Dark

• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Reality, Vision

• Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Heaven, Boast

• Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Modesty, Strife

• A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Years, Frail

• A pleasing face is no small advantage.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Faces, Advantage

• Beauty is a frail good.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Frail

• I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
  [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
  Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Beautiful, Perfect

• Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Light, Jewels

• A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage.
  [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

  Ovid

  Beauty, Disadvantages, Countenance

• Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Doors, Age

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