Quotes About Appearance

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm alright.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

I do put on a little make-up every day because it helps me feel put together. Mascara is essential.

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.

It's a shame that physical beauty often has such a negative effect on its occupant.