Motivational Quotes

Beauty

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

- Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Keats, John

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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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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 always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

22.

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

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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Bejar, Hada

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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

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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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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Berry, Halle

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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

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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

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Anne Frank

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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