Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

- Frye, Northrop

Best Quotes about Beauty

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Dante Alighieri

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

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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.

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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

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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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Keats, John

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard