Beauty Quotes

Beauty is one of those things everyone recognizes and nobody can quite define. These quotes take on physical beauty, natural beauty, inner beauty, and the strange way beautiful things can make you feel both happy and a little sad at the same time.

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

Thornton Wilder

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“Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.”

Jeanne Moreau

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Confucius

“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.”

John Wooden

“I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.”

Carol Alt

“That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.”

Kevyn Aucoin

“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”

Plautus

“It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.”

Hans Urs von Balthasar

“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.”

Pamela Anderson

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”

William Hazlitt

“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”

Aldous Huxley

“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.”

Diane Kruger

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