Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Immermann

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

11.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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

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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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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

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Prager, Emily

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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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 ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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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

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

Sappho

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

Andre, Father

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Bejar, Hada

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

44.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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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