Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Beauty

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prager, Emily

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Anouilh, Jean

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

10.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

11.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

12.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

13.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Augustine, St.

16.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

24.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

25.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Andre, Father

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

34.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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

Bejar, Hada

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

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Aristotle

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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