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

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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

Bejar, Hada

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

10.

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)

11.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

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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

13.

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

Scott Westerfeld

14.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

15.

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

Hubbard, Kin

16.

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

17.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

18.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

19.

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

20.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

21.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

22.

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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

24.

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

25.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

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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

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

29.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

31.

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

32.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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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

38.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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

42.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

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

Margaret Cho

44.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

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

Ann Radcliffe

46.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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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

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.