Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is not caused. It is.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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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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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

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bejar, Hada

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Ruskin, John

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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

35.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Aristotle

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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?