Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

14.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

19.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

20.

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

Dante Alighieri

21.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

25.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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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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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

28.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

30.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Pascal, Blaise

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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

39.

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

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

41.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher