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

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Prager, Emily

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

10.

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

11.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Augustine, St.

16.

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

17.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

Anne Frank

19.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

21.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

22.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

23.

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

24.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

25.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

31.

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

Andre, Father

32.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Ruskin, John

36.

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

37.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

38.

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

39.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

40.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

41.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

42.

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

43.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

44.

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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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

46.

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

47.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

49.

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

50.

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