Beauty Quotes

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Beauty Quotes

Hey there, good lookin'. Click on any beauty quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Source: 80 million United States Postage stamps | Author: Maya Angelou

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

Source: Quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) | Speaker: Coco Chanel

"A Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere."

Source: Red River | Speaker: Cherry Valance

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."

Source: Endymion | Author: John Keats

"A whole new world."

Source: Aladdin | Speaker: Aladdin and Princess Jasmine

"A world of pure imagination"

Source: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | Speaker: Willy Wonka

"Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual?"

Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?"

Source: The Graduate | Speaker: Ben Braddock

"Batter my heart"

Source: Batter my heart (Holy Sonnet 14) | Speaker: John Donne

"Be curious."

Source: Birthday Party Speech | Speaker: Stephen Hawking

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

Source: The Dalai Lama's visit to Capitol Hill | Speaker: Dalai Lama

"Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."

Source: And the Mountains Echoed | Author: Khaled Hosseini

"Because I was afraid of worms, Roxanne! Worms!"

Source: Roxanne | Speaker: Chris McConnell

"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—"

Source: Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art | Author: John Keats

"Buongiorno, principessa!"

Source: Life Is Beautiful | Speaker: Guido

"California girls, we're unforgettable."

Source: "California Gurls" | Speaker: Katy Perry

"Can you dig it?"

Source: Super Fly | Speaker: Youngblood Priest

"Can you feel the love tonight?"

Source: Can You Feel the Love Tonight? | Speaker: Elton John

"Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

Source: Colors of the Wind | Speaker: Pocahontas

"Consider the lilies."

Source: Luke 12:27 | Author: Luke

"Darlin' it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me!"

Source: Under the Sea | Speaker: Sebastian the Crab

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?"

Source: "Firework" | Speaker: Katy Perry

"Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round."

Source: Fat Bottomed Girls | Speaker: Queen

"Gild the lily."

Source: King John | Author: William Shakespeare

"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."

Source: The Cider House Rules | Speaker: Dr. Wilbur Larch

"Have mercy."

Source: Full House | Speaker: Uncle Jesse

"He ain't mean," said Slim. "I can tell a mean guy from a mile off."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"He ain't no drag—Papa's got a brand new bag."

Source: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag | Speaker: James Brown

"Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."

Source: A Star Is Born | Speaker: Vicki Lester

"Hello, gorgeous."

Source: Funny Girl | Speaker: Fanny Brice

"Her voice is full of money"

Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Here comes the sun. And I say, it's all right."

Source: "Here Comes the Sun" | Author: George Harrison

"Hoo-ah!"

Source: Scent of a Woman | Speaker: Lt. Col. Frank Slade

"How do I look?"

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's | Speaker: Holly Golightly

"How you doin'?"

Source: Friends | Speaker: Joey Tribbiani

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful."

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | Author: Leonardo da Vinci

"I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."

Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Speaker: Lorelei Lee

"I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."

Source: Notes from the Underground | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."

Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes

"I just want your extra time and your...kiss."

Source: "Kiss" | Author: Prince

"I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb."

Source: It Happened One Night | Speaker: Ellie Andrews

"I rise"

Source: "Still I Rise" | Author: Maya Angelou

"I started Early—Took my Dog / and visited the Sea"

Source: I started Early—Took my Dog | Author: Emily Dickinson

"I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love."

Source: "Burning Love" | Speaker: Elvis Presley

"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."

Source: Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Speaker: Jessica Rabbit

"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille."

Source: Sunset Boulevard | Speaker: Norma Desmond

"I'm sexy and I know it."

Source: Sexy and I Know It | Speaker: LMFAO

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"

Source: Marilyn Monroe | Speaker: Marilyn Monroe

"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."

Source: "Man in the Mirror" | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."

Source: Quoted in Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) | Speaker: Coco Chanel

"Isn't she lovely? Isn't she wonderful?"

Source: Isn't She Lovely | Speaker: Stevie Wonder

"Isn’t it pretty to think so?"

Source: The Sun Also Rises | Author: Ernest Hemingway

"It was beauty killed the beast."

Source: King Kong | Speaker: Carl Denham

"It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea"

Source: Annabel Lee | Author: Edgar Allan Poe

"It's a really big show tonight!"

Source: The Ed Sullivan Show | Speaker: Ed Sullivan

"It's something about the way you look tonight."

Source: "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" | Speaker: Elton John

"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."

Source: Dracula | Speaker: Dracula

"Look at the stars, look how they shine for you."

Source: "Yellow" | Speaker: Coldplay

"Love me tender. Love me true."

Source: "Love Me Tender" | Speaker: Elvis Presley

"Miles to go before I sleep."

Source: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Author: Robert Frost

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"

Source: Snow White | Speaker: The Evil Queen

"My cherie amour, little one that I adore."

Source: My Cherie Amour | Speaker: Stevie Wonder

"My heart will go on and on"

Source: My Heart Will Go On | Speaker: Celine Dion

"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"

Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns

"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human."

Source: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Speaker: James Kirk

"Oh, my nose!"

Source: The Brady Bunch | Speaker: Marcia Brady

"Oo-ee-oo, I look just like Buddy Holly."

Source: "Buddy Holly" | Speaker: Weezer

"Pretty woman, give your smile to me."

Source: Oh, Pretty Woman | Speaker: Roy Orbison

"Pretty woman, walkin' down the street."

Source: Oh, Pretty Woman | Speaker: Roy Orbison

"Pretty young thing"

Source: "P.Y.T." | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!"

Source: Some Like it Hot | Speaker: Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

"See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen."

Source: "Dancing Queen" | Speaker: ABBA

"She's a full-on Monet."

Source: Clueless | Speaker: Cher

"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it."

Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Ricky Fitts

"Suit up!"

Source: How I Met Your Mother | Speaker: Barney Stinson

"Sweet Caroline! Ba, ba, ba!"

Source: "Sweet Caroline" | Speaker: Neil Diamond

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the beast."

Source: Beauty and the Beast | Speaker: Mrs. Potts

"Tell me what you don't like about yourself."

Source: Nip/Tuck | Speaker: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy

"That's hot."

Source: The Simple Life | Speaker: Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie

"The apple of my eye"

Source: Psalm 17:8 | Author: David

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart."

Source: The Story of My Life | Author: Helen Keller

"The cold never bothered me anyway."

Source: Frozen | Speaker: Elsa

"The curves of your lips rewrite history."

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray | Author: Oscar Wilde

"The face that launched a thousand ships"

Source: Doctor Faustus | Author: Christopher Marlowe

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

Source: Dune | Author: Frank Herbert

"The rug really tied the room together."

Source: The Big Lebowski | Speaker: Walter Sobchak

"There is a place where the sidewalk ends."

Source: Where the Sidewalk Ends | Author: Shel Silverstein

"There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando."

Source: Fernando | Speaker: ABBA

"They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot."

Source: "Big Yellow Taxi" | Speaker: Joni Mitchell

"Time to make the donuts."

Source: Dunkin' Donuts commercial | Speaker: Fred the Baker

"To the rolling of the bells- Of the bells, bells, bells"

Source: The Bells | Author: Edgar Allan Poe

"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

Source: The Mill on the Floss | Author: George Eliot

"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."

Source: Sunset Boulevard | Speaker: Norma Desmond

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen

"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."

Source: My Ántonia | Author: Willa Cather

"Who are you wearing?"

Source: Joan Rivers, on the red carpet | Speaker: Joan Rivers

"Who is that girl I see?"

Source: "Reflection" | Speaker: Mulan

"Who is the fairest one of all?"

Source: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Speaker: The Evil Queen

"Will you accept this rose?"

Source: The Bachelor | Speaker: Bachelors

"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."

Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice | Speaker: Frank Chambers

"Yas queen!"

Source: Broad City | Speaker: Ilana Wexler

"You are beautiful, no matter what they say."

Source: Beautiful | Speaker: Christina Aguilera

"You don't have to put on the red light."

Source: "Roxanne" | Speaker: The Police

"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."

Source: "Big Yellow Taxi" | Speaker: Joni Mitchell

"You just put your lips together and blow."

Source: To Have and Have Not | Speaker: Slim

"You know my hips don't lie."

Source: Hips Don't Lie | Speaker: Shakira

"You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good."

Source: Men in Black | Speaker: J

"You lived your life like a candle in the wind."

Source: "Candle in the Wind" | Speaker: Elton John

"You make me want to be a better man."

Source: As Good As It Gets | Speaker: Melvin Udall

"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."

Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway

"Your body is a wonderland."

Source: "Your Body is a Wonderland" | Speaker: John Mayer