Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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

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

10.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

11.

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

Immermann

12.

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

Banks, Tyra

13.

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

Klee, Paul

14.

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

15.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

16.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

17.

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

18.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

19.

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

Paz, Octavio

20.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

21.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

22.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

23.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

24.

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

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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

Keats, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

31.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

32.

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

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

34.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

35.

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

Howard, Vernon

36.

People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

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

Proverb, French

38.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

39.

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

41.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

42.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

43.

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

44.

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

Hubbard, Kin

45.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

46.

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

Anne Frank

47.

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

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

Morley, Christopher

50.

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