Motivational Quotes

Beauty

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Berry, Halle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Augustine, St.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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

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

Anne Frank

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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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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 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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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

Sappho

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Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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

Bejar, Hada

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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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

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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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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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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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father