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