Motivational Quotes

Beauty

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Beauty

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Teale, Edwin Way

10.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

11.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

12.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

13.

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

14.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

15.

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

16.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

17.

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

Prager, Emily

18.

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

19.

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

20.

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

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

24.

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

Proverb, Persian

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

27.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

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

Andre, Father

30.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

31.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

38.

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

Klee, Paul

39.

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

Sappho

40.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

41.

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

42.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

43.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Eliot, George

45.

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

Morley, Christopher

46.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

48.

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

49.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

50.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates