Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Beauty
Quotations & Citations:
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.~ Markus Zusak
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
~Alice Walker
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
~George W. Russell
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~Author Unknown
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
~Khalil Gibran
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~ Anne Frank
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
~Tertullian
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
~Ninon de L’Enclos
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ~Ralph Ellison
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.~ John Green
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
~Martin Buxbaum
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Close your eyes and see the beauty.
~Author Unknown
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
~ Scott Westerfeld
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~Leo Tolstoy
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
~Christopher Morley
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
~ Amy Bloom
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
~Simone Weil
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
~Logan Pearsall Smith
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
~Author Unknown
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
~Rabindranath Tagore
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~Chinese Proverb
Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
~Roseanne
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
~Dorothy Parker
I don’t like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.
~Karl Lagerfeld
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.~Anne Brontë
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
~Baltasar Gracián
May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend….~William Butler Yeats
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~Confucius
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.
~Author Unknown
We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
~George Eliot
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.
~Mary Oliver
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~Edgar Allan Poe
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann von Goethe
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
~Marcus Aurelius
The misconception with a lot of girls is that it takes two to three hours to be beautiful. I always tell girls allow yourself 30 minutes so that you can really enjoy the process, so that you can get to know you in the morning before the world gets to know you.
~Tracy Balan
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
~Karl Kraus
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
~John Ruskin
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
~ Anne Frank
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
~Florenz Ziegfeld
Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.
~Ninon de l’Enclos
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
~Robert Brault
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
~John Ruskin
Just because you’re beautiful and perfect, it’s made you conceited.
~William Goldman
Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.
~Mike Dolan
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
~Stendhal
Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
~Gwyneth Paltrow
Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.
~Dr. SunWolf
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
~Rachel Carson
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~Walt Whitman
No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face….~John Donne
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man “who was uglier than he had any business to be;” and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.
~Alexander Smith
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
~Robert Brault
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone….~Sam Levenson
Beauty… is the shadow of God on the universe.
~Gabriela Mistral
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
~ Virginia Woolf
Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart.
~Nate Dircks
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.
~Marie Stopes
Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude.
~Grey Livingston
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
~Pablo Picasso
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas?
~Jean Kerr
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.
~Saint Augustine
Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
~Rosalind Russell
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
~George Bernard Shaw
Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
~Garrison Keillor