Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Aristotle

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

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

13.

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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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Proverb, French

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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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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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

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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

28.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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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 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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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sappho

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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

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

Berry, Halle

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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

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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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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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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