Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Andre, Father

Best Quotes about Beauty

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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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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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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

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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

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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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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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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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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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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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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Banks, Tyra

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Sappho

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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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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

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs