June 20th, 2018 | Updated on June 28th, 2022
1. We rounded up 45 of the best beauty quotes ever: some that’ll make you laugh, others that might make you reach for the nearest tube of lip gloss, and, hopefully, some that might even make you rethink your own beauty philosophy.
2. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.-Marilyn Monroe
3. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.-Jim Henson
4. Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.-Markus Zusak
5. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.” — – Audrey Hepburn
6. That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.-John Green
7. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.-Anne Frank
8. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.-Maya Angelou
9. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.-Marilyn Monroe
10. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.-Coco Chanel
11. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt
12. That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Do you think I’m pretty? I think you’re beautiful Beautiful? You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.-Richelle Mead
14. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy
15. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. -Rabindranath Tagore
16. When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” – John Lennon
17. You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.-Amy Bloom
18. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.-Scott Westerfeld
19. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.-Clive Barker
20. “Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.”
21. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.-Audrey Hepburn
22. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.-Marcus Aurelius
23. There is no exquisite beauty⦠without some strangeness in the proportion.-Edgar Allan Poe
24. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.-Confucius
25. But he who dares not grasp the thorn.Should never crave the rose.-Anne Bronte
26. Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.-Franz Kafka
27. Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.-Oscar Wilde
28. Let everything happen to you beauty and terror Just keep going no feeling is final-Rainer Maria Rilke
29. I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.-Anne Frank
30. Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.-Jonathan Safran Foer
31. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.-Donna Tartt
32. We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.-Marilyn Monroe
33. In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.-Jalaluddin Rumi
34. You don’t love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.-L.J. Smith
35. No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.-Eleanor Roosevelt
36. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.-Albert Einstein
37. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.-Virginia Woolf
