Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Klee, Paul

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

Philips, Ambrose

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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 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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Immermann

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

Andre, Father

17.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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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

20.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

21.

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 line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Scott Westerfeld

24.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

27.

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

28.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

29.

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

Sappho

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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.

31.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

32.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

33.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

34.

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

Bejar, Hada

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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

36.

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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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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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Anne Frank