Superficial Beauty Quotes

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

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.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.