Beauty Quotes

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

I look foreword to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.

Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

A fine dress on a homely maiden is never enough of a distraction. It can convey a sense of wealth and its accompanying attractions, but it can never truly compensate for a plain face.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

To love beauty is to see light.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

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

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.

In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing, is what I am doing, beautiful or not?

I have always been offended by the song that says, 'Everything is beautiful in its own way.' If everything is beautiful, then the word 'beautiful' has no meaning. If everything were purple, there would be no word 'purple' in the language because it would not distinguish one thing from another.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.