Quotes About Beauty

Men ought to be more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

— Germaine Greer

I don’t like standard beauty.  There is no beauty without strangeness.

— Karl Lagerfeld

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.

— Edward R. Nida

Ah seen a man so ugly till they spread a sheet over his head at night so sleep could slip up on him.

— Zora Neale Hurston

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

— John Donne

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.

— Lord Byron

What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

— William Shakespeare

Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Oscar Wilde

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

— John Barrymore

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty...but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

— Francis Bacon

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

— John Keats

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

— Leo Tolstoy

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

— John Ruskin

Ask a toad what is beauty...He will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly, and a brown back.

— Voltaire

A much more effective and lasting method of face-lifting than surgical technique is happy thinking, new interests, and outdoor exercise.

— Sara Murray Jordan

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

— Saki (H. H. Munro)

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

Anatomically speaking, a bust is here today and gone tomorrow.

— Isabel Barnett

Beauty’s but skin deep.

— John Davis of Hereford

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

— Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

None but the brave deserves the fair.

— John Dryden