Famous Beauty Quotes

"Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime"

Alicia Machado, Celebrity

"Beauty and folly are old companions"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies"

John Donne, Poet

"A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Beauty is a fragile gift"

Ovid, Poet

"Goodness is beauty in the best estate"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being"

Katherine Anne Porter, Journalist

"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman"

Courtney Love, Musician

"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, Actress

"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home"

Loretta Young, Actress

"Beauty is not caused. It is"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"Beauty awakens the soul to act"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person"

Amanda Peet, Actress

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer"

Joan Collins, Actress

"'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business"

Richard Chamberlain, Actor