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Quotes about Beauty

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
- Havelock Ellis, English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939)

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller, US author (1891 - 1980)

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank, German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945)

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
- Pearl Buck, US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
- John Cage, US composer of avant-garde music (1912 - 1992)

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983)

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable, English landscape painter (1776 - 1837)

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- Petrarch, Italian humanist, lyric poet, & scholar (1304 - 1374)

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
- Teena Booth

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
- Margaret Cho

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
- Margaret Cho

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
- Margaret Cho

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
- Cheryl Tiegs, US actress & model (1947 - )

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
- Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
- Salma Hayek