Top 100 To Be Beautiful Quotes
#1. They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.
E. M. Forster
#2. Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?
Sarah Dessen
#3. I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.
Alice Temperley
#4. We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.
Donald Miller
#5. The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
Yoko Ono
#6. You don't have to be beautiful to be shallow. You needn't be small or weak to be a coward. Shitty personalities come in surprising packages and anybody can be an asshole. So value the good ones, whoever they are. Recognize them when you see them and don't let them go.
Jennifer DeLucy
#7. Life would move on with or without me, and I didn't need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was.
Aubrey Rose
#8. I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
Michael Cunningham
#10. Admit that I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good.
Oscar Wilde
#12. Remember, you don't have to be mighty in stature to be mighty in battle. You don't have to be beautiful or strong, or even physically fit to change the world, you just have to know that far greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world (see 1 John 4:4).
Susie Larson
#13. She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.
Margaret Atwood
#14. It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.
Frank O'Hara
#15. She wondered how it would feel to be beautiful and have it taken away. How much harder would it be than never knowing what it felt like in the first place?
Amy Harmon
#16. I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
Joan Smalls
#17. It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
#18. If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.
Jade Jagger
#19. It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
Virginia Petrucci
#20. When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.
Junot Diaz
#21. We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
Alain De Botton
#22. And I thought: What am I doing here? What am I doing here? What am I? I wanted to feel like a pretty girl, even out in Colorado with no one who knew me. To be beautiful. To live beautifully. I drew on maroon Make Me Blush lipstick.
Aspen Matis
#23. There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Yoko Ono
#24. What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.
Patton Oswalt
#25. It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.
Suzy Parker
#26. Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.
Maya Angelou
#27. To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#28. A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL.
John Allison
#29. 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
#30. Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
Robert Breault
#31. If beauty and love do not suit the times, then you have to be beautiful and to love to spite the times!
Mikhail Shishkin
#32. For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty.
Rei Kawakubo
#33. If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
#34. To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.
Kristen Johnston
#35. There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.
E. M. Forster
#36. I believe the flower's purpose is not to be beautiful; it is to grow. Many seeds shrivel in the ground, but this one grew, and therefore it has been picked already, it is chosen already, it is beautiful already.
Rachelle Dekker
#37. Rainbows are said to be beautiful!
Rainbows are said to be colourful!
Rainbows may possibly be magical!
But, I have never seen a rainbow appearing in the sky!
Srinidhi.R
#38. I had to determine for myself what it means to be beautiful if I ever wanted to accept my own unique beauty. This is my challenge to you: Define beauty for yourself, and I promise, your outlook on the world around you, as well the world within you, will change forever.
Madelyn Moon
#39. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' " "William Morris.
Menna Van Praag
#40. Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.
Ritwik Ghatak
#42. Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
James Stephens
#43. We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.
Philip Gulley
#44. You don't need a modeling campaign to be beautiful to me," said Micah gallantly.
Richelle Mead
#45. I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.
Juliette Lewis
#46. For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#47. To be beautiful, be the person who helps others to reveal their own beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.
Maureen Dowd
#49. I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
Elle Macpherson
#50. I remember when I was younger and I wanted to be beautiful; now I'm older and I want to be intelligent. I want to burn hearts with brilliance and engulf souls with compassion. I want to be loved for my thoughts and nothing else.
N.a.
#51. One of my cousins is named Lucifer. I once asked my aunt why and she said, Because I wanted him to be beautiful and to think for himself.
Ilona Andrews
#52. You don't have to be beautiful to have a beautiful life.
Debasish Mridha
#53. God, what is man's best gift to mankind? To be beautiful of soul and then let people see into your soul.
Richard J. Foster
#55. I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
Pam Grier
#56. Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.
Naomi Wolf
#58. In Paris, even the subways are required to be beautiful.
Jenny Offill
#59. Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
John Ruskin
#60. It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.
Brenna Yovanoff
#61. Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
Haruki Murakami
#62. Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them because they were diverting or illuminating or in some way useful but not because the books themselves were aesthetically appealing.
Joe Queenan
#63. It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.
Horace
#64. How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.
Milan Kundera
#65. To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats
#66. To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.
Patrick Rothfuss
#67. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
Stephen Hunter
#68. It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
Warsan Shire
#69. I think you have to be who you truly are and love who you are (to be beautiful). It's also important to be free and honest, enjoying life and having fun. In conclusion, ... I am who I am.
CL
#70. ...being beautiful has nothing to do with sex. You have to be beautiful in here, too." he says, pressing his fist against his heart and then his head.
Karina Halle
#71. The boards had to be beautiful in Steve [Jobs]'s eyes when you looked at them, even though when he created the Macintosh he made it impossible for a consumer to get in the box, because he didn't want people tampering with anything.
John Sculley
#72. There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.
William Landay
#73. I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.
Roseanne Barr
#74. I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.
Taylor Swift
#76. Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#78. I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
Danica McKellar
#79. It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world's in a rush to be beautiful.
Theodore Sturgeon
#81. To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#82. The problem is that we as a society simply accept these unrealistic standards: that you have to be thin to be perfect, to be beautiful, to be successful at work and to have a good relationship. And it is making us sick. This self-loathing is crippling women.
Crystal Renn
#83. Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. Just be yourself, it means to be beautiful.
Rajneesh
#85. The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.
Candice Bergen
#86. Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
Eva Green
#87. I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.
Joyce Giraud
#89. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
Mother Teresa
#91. Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.
Suzy Kassem
#92. Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
Coco Chanel
#93. The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
Jean Rhys
#94. She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.
Paul Auster
#95. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#96. Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.
Luisa Casati
#97. I consider the possibility that I've been right and wrong my whole life. I was right to want to be beautiful and sexy; I was just wrong to have accepted someone else's idea of what those words mean.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#98. You have to be who you truly are, and love who you are, to be beautiful.
CL
#99. In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?
Susie Orbach
#100. Maybe she'd always wished to be beautiful and didn't quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn't say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there'd been a mistake and she was after all.
Mona Simpson
