Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Beauty

1.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

2.

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

Augustine, St.

3.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

5.

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

6.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

7.

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

8.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

9.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

14.

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

Anouilh, Jean

15.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Sontag, Susan

22.

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

23.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

24.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

26.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

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

28.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

29.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

30.

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

31.

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

Kraus, Karl

32.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

33.

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

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

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

36.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

37.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

38.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

39.

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

40.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.