Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

- Pearl Buck

Best Quotes about Beauty

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

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

Sackville-West, Vita

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

10.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

12.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

13.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

15.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

18.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

20.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

21.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

25.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

26.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

27.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

28.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

30.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

35.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

49.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English