Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Beauty

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

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

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

Andre, Father

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

Eliot, George

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

11.

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

Berry, Halle

12.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

14.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

15.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

16.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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

22.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

23.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

24.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

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

Sappho

26.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

27.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

28.

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

Banks, Tyra

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

31.

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

O'Hara, Frank

32.

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

Margaret Cho

33.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

40.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

41.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

42.

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

43.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

44.

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

Picasso, Pablo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

48.

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

49.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

50.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar