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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

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

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

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

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

Berry, Halle

10.

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

11.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

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

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

Augustine, St.

17.

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

18.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

19.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Spenser, Edmund

21.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

22.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

23.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

24.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

34.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

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

37.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

38.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

39.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

40.

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

Andre, Father

41.

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

42.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

43.

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

44.

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.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

46.

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

47.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

48.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

49.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

50.

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