Funny Quotes About Beauty

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
        — Persian Proverb

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
        — Edwin Way Teale

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.
        — Anon

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
        — John Ruskin

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially to mosques.
        — Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad)

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
        — Arthur Rimbaud

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
        — Hermann Wey

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
        — Frank O'Hara

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
        — Oscar Wilde

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies' papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.
        — Jerome K Jerome (Idle Ideas in 1905)

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

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.
        — Dolly Parton