Beauty Quotes

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- Petrarch

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

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

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
- 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 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

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