Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Teale, Edwin Way

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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

12.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Augustine, St.

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

Sappho

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Proverb, Persian

19.

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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

25.

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 rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Ruskin, John

30.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

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

Klee, Paul

35.

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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Philips, Ambrose

39.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Berry, Halle

41.

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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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 everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Margaret Cho

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.