Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

It would be a mistake to think something is wonderful just because it looks great.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

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.

Good looks only take you so far.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.