Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Klee, Paul

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Philips, Ambrose

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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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

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

Teale, Edwin Way

16.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

17.

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

Sappho

18.

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

19.

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

Bejar, Hada

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

25.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

26.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

31.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

33.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

34.

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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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]

Bible

36.

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

Andre, Father

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

Kotomichi

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

41.

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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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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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

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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

45.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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