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 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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Immermann

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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

Margaret Cho

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

35.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

37.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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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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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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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

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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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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Aristotle

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.