Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Brown, Helen Gurley

Best Quotes about Beauty

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Augustine, St.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Andre, Father

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

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Sontag, Susan

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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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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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Immermann

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Prager, Emily

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Keats, John

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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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