Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Things are beautiful if you love them.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

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

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Philips, Ambrose

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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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

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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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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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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

33.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone