Beauty Quotes

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

~ Erin Mckean

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

~ Justina Chen

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

~ Sarah J. Maas

The better you look, the more you see.

~ Bret Easton Ellis

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.

~ Alex Flinn

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

~ Yukio Mishima

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

~ L.m. Montgomery

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

~ Thea Harrison

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

~ Oscar Wilde

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

~ Naomi Wolf

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

~ Drew Barrymore

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

~ Rachel Carson

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

~ Michael Cunningham

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

~ William Shakespeare

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

~ Nikolai Gogol

A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers. ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

~ Milan Kundera

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

~ John Green

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

~ Vladimir Nabokov

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.- Romeo -

~ William Shakespeare

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

~ Oscar Wilde

Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.

~ Mandy Hale

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

~ John Geddes

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

~ Alice Walker

Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.

~ Mandy Hale

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

~ Salvador Dalí

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

~ Nora Roberts

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.

~ Golda Poretsky

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

~ Aldo Leopold

Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.

~ Crystal Woods

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

~ Holly Black

By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!

~ Steve Maraboli

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

~ Philip Pullman