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Beauty Quotes and Sayings

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Stendhal

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
Roseanne

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.
Grey Livingston

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
Florenz Ziegfeld

Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.
Gabriela Mistral

Beauty and folly are generally companions.
Baltasar Gracian

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
George W. Russell

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus

I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfeld

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis

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

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch

Beauty – in projection and perceiving – is 99.9% attitude.
Grey Livingston

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

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

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.
Margaret Cho

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

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

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum

Beauty.. when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart.
Nate Dircks.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L’Enclos

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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.
John Cage

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.
John Constable

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann von Goethe

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin

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

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

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