Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Aristotle

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ruskin, John

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Sappho

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Andre, Father

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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Dante Alighieri

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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 in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell