Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
‐‐ Dale Archer
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
‐‐ Paul Klee
Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
‐‐ Iman
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
‐‐ Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
‐‐ Umberto Eco
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
‐‐ Thomas Nashe
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
‐‐ George Bancroft
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
‐‐ Jean-Luc Godard
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
‐‐ Christopher Morley
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
‐‐ Marianne Moore
Beauty is everything.
‐‐ Jorja Fox
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan
Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
‐‐ Andre Leon Talley
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
‐‐ Sophia Loren
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
‐‐ Patrick Demarchelier
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
‐‐ Oliver Platt
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
‐‐ H. G. Wells
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
‐‐ Alan Ball
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
‐‐ Saint Augustine
Beauty is less important than quality.
‐‐ Eugene Ormandy
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
‐‐ John Milton
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
‐‐ Annie Besant
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll
Beauty is not caused. It is.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson
Beauty is not everything!
‐‐ Chita Rivera
Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
‐‐ Queen Latifah
Beauty is not just physical.
‐‐ Halle Berry
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins
Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.
‐‐ John Zimmerman
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh
Beauty is only skin deep.
‐‐ Thomas Overbury
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
‐‐ Richard Armour
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
‐‐ Vernon Howard
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez
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
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
‐‐ Alicia Machado
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
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
‐‐ John Ray