Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

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

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

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

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

11.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

12.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Immermann

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

Keats, John

19.

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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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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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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 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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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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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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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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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Dante Alighieri

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.