Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Bejar, Hada

Best Quotes about Beauty

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Augustine, St.

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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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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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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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Dante Alighieri

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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

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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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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

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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Keats, John

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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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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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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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

Scott Westerfeld

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