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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.: Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914)
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.: Hazrat Inayat Khan
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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
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 (1912 - 1992)
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 (1776 - 1837)
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06
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, weblog, 01-27-04
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.: Petrarch (1304 - 1374), De Remedies
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 (1895 - 1983)
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, Ministrare, 2-10-05
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.: Salma Hayek
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.: Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
Eye contact is the best accessory.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.: Teena Booth, Falling From Fire


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