Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

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

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

Louie Schwartzberg

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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 worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Sontag, Susan

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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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Aristotle

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Anne Frank

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Augustine, St.

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Margaret Cho

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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

Dante Alighieri

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett