Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

11.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

12.

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

O'Hara, Frank

13.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

14.

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

15.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

16.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Huxley, Aldous

20.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

26.

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

27.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

31.

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

Philips, Ambrose

32.

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

33.

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

34.

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

35.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

36.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

37.

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

38.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

39.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

40.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

41.

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

42.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

43.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

44.

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

45.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

46.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

47.

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

48.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

49.

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

50.

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