What makes us beautiful? Quotes presented by Perfect Perception

Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. - Grey Livingston

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. - Anonymous

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’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 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

It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart. – Anonymous

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. - Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - William Shakespeare

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde

Women’s modesty generally increases with their beauty. - Friedrich Nietzsche

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. - William Shakespeare

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. - Adlai E. Stevenson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. - Walt Whitman

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. - Sara Teasdale

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.- John Muir

She walks in beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes. - Lord Byron

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. - Pearl Buck

Our feeling for beauty is inspired by the harmonious arrangement of order and disorder as it occurs in natural objects - in clouds, trees, mountain ranges, or snow crystals. - Gert Eilenberger

Small is beautiful. Proverb

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. - Anonymous

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. - Ninon de L’Enclos

Beauty sat with me all the summer day, Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; Nor mark’d I till we parted, how, hard by, Love in her train stood ready for his prey. - Robert Bridges

And when I told them how beautiful you are. They didn’t believe me! They didn’t believe me! - M. E. Rourke

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

Beauty and folly are old companions. - Ben Franklin

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never. Pass into nothingness; but still will keep. A bower quiet for us, and a sleep. Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. - John Keats

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who ‘appreciate’ beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never ‘appreciate’, any more than I ‘like’. I love or I hate. - Pablo Picasso

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. - Mark Overby

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful. - Rupert Brooke

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ - that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. - Johann von Schiller

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - Charles Reade

Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smile. -Campbell

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Countess of Blessington

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundredth with a beauty. - Pearl Buck

I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. - Tyra Banks