Beauty - Beautiful Quotes

At a party, a young woman allowed Dorothy Parker precede her entry to a room, cooing “Age before beauty”, to which Ms. Parker replied, “Pearls before swine.”

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.

Beauty is Nature’s brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home.

It’s easy to be beautiful – just be born that way.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. (former Philippine first lady)

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caress of a subhumanly ugly mate?

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.