Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Beauty
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
