Beauty Quotes 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 There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.     Sir Francis Bacon 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 Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.     Pearl Buck 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 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 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 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 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 The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.     Havelock Ellis Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.     Anne Frank 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 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 The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.     Hazrat Inayat Khan 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 Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.     Petrarch 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 Previous Subject - Banks | Next Subject - Belief