Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Beauty

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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

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

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

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Sappho

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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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 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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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?

Jean Kerr

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Andre, Father

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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 is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Immermann

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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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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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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

34.

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

Augustine, St.

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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?

Shaw, George Bernard

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank