Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Beauty

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Keats, John

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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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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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dante Alighieri

17.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

18.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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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

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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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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

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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 worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

31.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

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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

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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

37.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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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

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

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