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

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

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

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

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 power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Aristotle

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ruskin, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Andre, Father

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Proverb, French

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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

Prager, Emily

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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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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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