Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

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

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

Sappho

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

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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

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

Prager, Emily

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Banks, Tyra

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

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