Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty rests on necessities.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Morley, Christopher

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Scott Westerfeld

13.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

14.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

15.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

16.

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

17.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

18.

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

Bejar, Hada

19.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

20.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

22.

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

23.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

27.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

28.

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

29.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

30.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

31.

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

32.

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

Sappho

33.

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

Philips, Ambrose

34.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

39.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

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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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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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

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Hubbard, Kin

47.

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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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.