Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

O'Hara, Frank

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Anouilh, Jean

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Aristotle

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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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 a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Andre, Father

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

25.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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

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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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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

32.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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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

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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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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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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin