Famous Quotes about Beauty (163 Quotations)

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

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.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

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

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

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

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

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty –he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world –alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

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

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms — will it return to my body when they scatter?