Beauty Quotes

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

Emily Mortimer

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Michel de Montaigne

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

Beth Ditto

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Roberto Benigni

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Martha Beck

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

Richard Morris

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Andre Breton

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Van Morrison

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Donna Rice

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

Virgil

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Herbie Hancock

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Henry Drummond

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

William Shenstone

In art economy is always beauty.

Henry James

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Chanakya

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

Helena Christensen