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.
—Pearl Buck
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
—Petrarch
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
—Salma Hayek
Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
—Scott Westerfeld
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.
—Francis Bacon
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
—Teena Booth
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.
—Unknown
Eye contact is the best accessory.
—Unknown
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.
—Unknown
What, is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?
—William Shakespeare
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
—Stephen Leacock
The time in our own life when we came closest to being convinced by silence was one time at sea in a light fall of snow. We heard nothing—no gravel, no wind, no waves, no wolves, no bell buoy. It was convincing and it was beautiful.
—E. B. White
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
—Honoré de Balzac