Quotes About Beauty

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.