Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

O'Hara, Frank

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

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

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Prager, Emily

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

Proverb, French

17.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

22.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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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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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

32.

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 in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Sappho

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

Dante Alighieri

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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 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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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

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Andre, Father

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.