Beauty Quotes

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
– Phyllis Diller
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
– Charles Baudelaire
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
– Aldous Huxley
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
– Lisa See
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
– David Attenborough
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
– Paul Dirac
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
– Anthony Kiedis
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
– W. Somerset Maugham
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
– Imelda Marcos
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.
– Serge Haroche
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
– Samuel Johnson
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
– Richard Le Gallienne
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
– Alfred Jarry
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.
– Moses Mendelssohn
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
– Priscilla Presley
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
– Homer
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
– Christopher Wren
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
– Douglas Sirk
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
– Phil Ochs
In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
– Joel McHale
In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
– Fritz Todt
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
– William Penn
In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
– Alanis Morissette
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
– Vladimir Kramnik
In art economy is always beauty.
– Henry James
In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.
– Teri Hatcher
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
– Marilyn Monroe
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
– Anne Lamott
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!
– Beyonce Knowles
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
– Stephen Fry
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.
– Sophie Thompson
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.
– Rufus Wainwright
I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.
– Cheryl Tiegs
I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.
– Julie Burchill
I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.
– Lauren Conrad
I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
– Narada Michael Walden
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
– Jean Kerr
I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
– Katherine Heigl
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
– Carre Otis
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
– Jude Law
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
– Buddy Holly
I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.
– Kirk Gibson
I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.
– Diane Kruger
I'm not a party animal I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.
– Rima Fakih
I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
– Angelina Jolie
I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.
– Evangeline Lilly
I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
– Selma Blair
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
– Susan Estrich
I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.
– Melanie Fiona
I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.
– Teri Hatcher
I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
– Allison Janney
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
– Jack London
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
– Baruch Spinoza
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
– Edgar Allan Poe
I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
– Naya Rivera
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
– Shirley MacLaine
I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
– Celine Dion
I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
– Pamela Anderson
I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.
– Nina Dobrev
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
– Gerard Butler
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
– Jennifer Aniston
I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
– Candice Swanepoel
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.
– Maria Bello
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
– Studs Terkel
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
– Isaac Albeniz
I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.
– Selma Blair
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
– Robert Browning
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
– Theodore Bikel
I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
– Beth Ditto
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
– James Weldon Johnson
I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.
– Sharon Stone
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
– Ella R. Bloor
I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.
– Martina McBride
I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
– Halle Berry
I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.
– Eric Bana
I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.
– Dita Von Teese
I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.
– Tom Ford
I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.
– Angela Kinsey
I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
– John Wooden
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
– John Derek
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
– Aasif Mandvi
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
– Peggy Fleming
I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.
– Shaun White
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
– Tila Tequila
I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
– Rachel Bilson
I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
– Faith Hill
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.
– George Saunders
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.
– George Byron
I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
– Christy Turlington
I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.
– Hayden Panettiere
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
– Robert Caro
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.
– Leighton Meester
I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.
– Dita Von Teese
I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
– Roberto Cavalli
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.
– Tom Perrotta