Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

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

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Lubbock, Sir John

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

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

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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 whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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 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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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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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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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Bejar, Hada

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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 essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Maugham, W. Somerset