Voltaire Quotes

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.

The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

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

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa.

What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.

Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.

Beauty is subjective, so people's opinions don't really matter.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

Just wear what you think looks beautiful.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Beauty is not beauty without love.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.