Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

- Breton, Andre

Best Quotes about Beauty

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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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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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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Prager, Emily

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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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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Sappho

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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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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 in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Immermann

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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Eliot, George

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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