Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Prager, Emily

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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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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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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

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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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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

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Pascal, Blaise

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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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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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

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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.

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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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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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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