Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

- Bancroft, George

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

10.

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

11.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

12.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

13.

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

Margaret Cho

14.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

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

Anouilh, Jean

17.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

18.

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

Augustine, St.

19.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

20.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

21.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

22.

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 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

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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

25.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

26.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

27.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Paz, Octavio

31.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

33.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

37.

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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

39.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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.

41.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

43.

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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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

45.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

46.

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

47.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

48.

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

49.

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

Sappho