Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

I don't think my eyes are stunning as some people's are.

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Do you think I’m pretty?” I heard myself ask. Something I couldn’t name flashed across his face. “No. I don’t think you’re pretty. I think you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.

I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.

I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

I didn't grow up beautiful.