Beauty Quotes and Sayings

Some Beauty Quotes and Sayings

Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~Ambrose Bierce

Personal beauty is a better introduction than any letter;
~Diogenes Laertius

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
~Luis Cernuda

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
~Sicelides


When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~Chinese proverb

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
~Edmund Spenser.. slightly funny beauty quote :)


What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful.
~Mme. de Pompadour

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
~Charles Readde

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
~Sophia Loren

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
~Kin Hubbard

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
~Florenz Ziegfeld

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
~Karl Kraus

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
~George Eliot

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
~Roseanne

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
~Havelock Ellis


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

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
~Helen Rowland

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs.
~Marlene Dietrich

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~Kahlil Gibran

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