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

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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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

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Eliot, George

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Sappho

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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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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 a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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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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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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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