False Beauty Quotes

'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.

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.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening it is gone. Nobody can say when it will disappear, when the petals will start falling. Just a strong wind and it is no more, just a strong sun and it is no more. But the plastic flower will be there; come rain, come sun, come anything, the plastic flower will be there. In fact, plastic is the only permanent thing in the world.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light.