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 a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Dante Alighieri

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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 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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

16.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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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.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Bejar, Hada

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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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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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

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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

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.