Motivational Quotes

Beauty

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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.

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Klee, Paul

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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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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 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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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 composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Bejar, Hada

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Dante Alighieri

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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