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| A fair face may be a foul bargain. | 1 |
| A fair face may hide a foul heart. | 2 |
| A fair face is half a portion. | 3 |
| A fair face will get its praise though the owner keep silent. Danish. | 4 |
| A pretty face is as good as a drummer. German. | 5 |
| A pretty face is half a dowry. German. | 6 |
| A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats. | 7 |
| All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth. Shakespeare. | 8 |
| All that’s fair must fade. Italian. | 9 |
| Beauties without fortune have sweethearts plenty but husbands none at all. | 10 |
| Beauty and charity have always a mortal quarrel between them. | 11 |
| Beauty and folly are often companions. French, Italian. | 12 |
| Beauty and folly are sisters. German. | 13 |
| Beauty and understanding go rarely together. German. | 14 |
| Beauty blemished once forever’s lost. Shakespeare. | 15 |
| Beauty carries its dower in its face. Danish. | 16 |
| Beauty comes not by forcing. Turkish. | 17 |
| Beauty doth varnish age. Shakespeare. | 18 |
| Beauty draws more than oxen. | 19 |
| Beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope. | 20 |
| Beauty in the unworthy is poison in a casket of gold. Tamil. | 21 |
| Beauty is a frail advantage. Ovid. | 22 |
| Beauty is a good letter of introduction. German. | 23 |
| Beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melteth into blood. Shakespeare. | 24 |
| Beauty is as good as ready money. German. | 25 |
| Beauty is but dross if honesty be lost. Dutch. | 26 |
| Beauty is but skin deep. | 27 |
| Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. Zimmerman. | 28 |
| Beauty is no inheritance. | 29 |
| Beauty is one of God’s gifts. Lewes. | 30 |
| Beauty is potent but money is more potent. | 31 |
| Beauty is the eye’s food and the soul’s sorrow. German. | 32 |
| Beauty is the subject of a blemish. | 33 |
| Beauty is the wife’s best dowry. | 34 |
| Beauty is truth, truth beauty. Keats. | 35 |
| Beauty lives with kindness. Shakespeare. | 36 |
| Beauty may have fair leaves but bitter fruit. | 37 |
| Beauty opens locked doors. German. | 38 |
| Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. | 39 |
| Beauty—the fading rainbow’s pride. Halleck. | 40 |
| Beauty vanishes, virtue endures. German. | 41 |
| Beauty will buy no beef. | 42 |
| Beauty without bounty avails not. | 43 |
| Beauty without modesty is infamous. German. | 44 |
| Beauty without understanding is vain talk. German. | 45 |
| Beauty without virtue is a curse. | 46 |
| Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance. German, Danish. | 47 |
| Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smiles. Campbell. | 48 |
| Good looks buy nothing in the market. | 49 |
| Health and wealth create beauty. | 50 |
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| How goodness brightens beauty. Hannah Moore. | 51 |
| It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion. French. | 52 |
| Man cannot divide beauty into dollars. Polish. | 53 |
| One cannot live on beauty. German. | 54 |
| One does not put beauty in the kettle. German. | 55 |
| Over the greatest beauty hangs the greatest ruin. | 56 |
| She that is born a beauty is half married. | 57 |
| She who is born a beauty is born betrothed. Italian. | 58 |
| She who is born handsome is born married. | 59 |
| The beautiful are never desolate, but some one always loves them. Bailey. | 60 |
| The beautiful is always true. French. | 61 |
| The beetle is a beauty in the eyes of its mother. African. | 62 |
| The very autumn of a form once fine retains its beauties. Euripides. | 63 |
| We seize the beautiful and reject the useful. La Fontaine. | 64 |
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Say what were man? a world without a sun. | 65 |
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