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What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

I have always thought of beauty therapy, alternative treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

One of the things that people do not realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Black beauty - he is a dark horse.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

People do not associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that Does not eradicate the reality of the suffering. It is all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty was not something I spent a lot of time on.

I am very accepting with my age. It is like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I have got my Freud mixed up. It is just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.