Beauty Quotes

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.”

— Walter Pater

“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.”

— George Byron

“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”

— Ani DiFranco

“I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.”

— Lea Michele

“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.”

— Vivienne Westwood

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

— Khalil Gibran

“I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.”

— Jennifer Aniston

“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”

— Loretta Young

“There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.”

— Liv Tyler

“I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.”

— Lauren Graham

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

— Anne Frank

“I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.”

— Rachel Bilson

“I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.”

— Miley Cyrus