A Quote by Laurence J. Peter

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian - Writer
September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Should the beholder have poor eyesight, he can ask the nearest person which girls look good. Beauty is in the hand of the beer holder. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Al Bernstein

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Jim Henson

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.

Craig Stone

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Zora Neale Hurston

Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

J.R. Ward

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Julie Burchill

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

Victoria Alexander

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Michelle Sagara

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Oliver Platt

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

William Carlos Williams

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

Peter Schjeldahl

Beauty to me is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty comes in all different shapes, sizes, looks, qualities, but I truly believe that everybody is beautiful in their own way.