Beauty quotes and sayings

A good face is a letter of recommendation.
Proverb

All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
W. B. Yeats

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein

To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

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

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
Max Beerbohm

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.
Anonymous

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
Miss Piggy

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
William Shakespeare

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
Anonymous

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

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

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

I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Saki

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

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

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

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Anonymous

A person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.
Tara Grady

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Anonymous

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

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Women’s modesty generally increases with their beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare

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