Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Proverb, Persian

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

13.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

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.

15.

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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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

18.

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

Dante Alighieri

19.

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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

21.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

22.

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

Andre, Father

23.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Louie Schwartzberg

25.

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

26.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

28.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

32.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

33.

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

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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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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

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

Augustine, St.

48.

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

49.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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