Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Brown, Helen Gurley

Best Quotes about Beauty

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Keats, John

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

Berry, Halle

16.

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

17.

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

Scott Westerfeld

18.

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

19.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

20.

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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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 bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

24.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

25.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

27.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Kraus, Karl

30.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

Andre, Father

32.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

33.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

34.

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

35.

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

Banks, Tyra

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Prager, Emily

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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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

40.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

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

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Sappho

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

Augustine, St.

48.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

49.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

50.

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.