Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

- Delaney, Bessie

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Kotomichi

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

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

Marlowe, Christopher

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Ruskin, John

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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 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.

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

Augustine, St.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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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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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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

Proverb, French

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Aristotle

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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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 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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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin