Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Aristotle

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

11.

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

Immermann

12.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

14.

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

15.

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

Andre, Father

16.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

17.

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

O'Hara, Frank

18.

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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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

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

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

22.

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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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

27.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

28.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Louie Schwartzberg

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

37.

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 ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

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

40.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

42.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Huxley, Aldous

44.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

45.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

48.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

49.

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

Sappho