Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Bejar, Hada

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Berry, Halle

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Aristotle

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

10.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

11.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

12.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

13.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

15.

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

Margaret Cho

16.

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

Andre, Father

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

21.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

22.

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

Keats, John

23.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

24.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Scott Westerfeld

26.

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

27.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

37.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

38.

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

39.

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

46.

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

Dante Alighieri

47.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

48.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

49.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

50.

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