Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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 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

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

Anouilh, Jean

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

12.

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

Scott Westerfeld

13.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

16.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

17.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

18.

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

19.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

20.

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

21.

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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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

23.

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

24.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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?

Kerr, Jean

26.

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

Augustine, St.

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

29.

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

Margaret Cho

30.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

31.

People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

32.

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

Sappho

33.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

34.

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

Keats, John

35.

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

O'Hara, Frank

36.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

37.

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

Klee, Paul

38.

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

39.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

40.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

41.

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

42.

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

Spenser, Edmund

43.

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

Andre, Father

44.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

45.

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

46.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

47.

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.

48.

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

Proverb, Persian

49.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

50.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs