Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Beauty

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Andre, Father

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

Marlowe, Christopher

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

11.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Berry, Halle

19.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

20.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Banks, Tyra

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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

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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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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

29.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

33.

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

Aristotle

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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

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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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

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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