Motivational Quotes

Beauty

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Beauty

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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

Anne Frank

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

13.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

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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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

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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

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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

18.

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

Andre, Father

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

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.

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

22.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

23.

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

Sappho

24.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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?

Jean Kerr

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

31.

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

32.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

34.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

35.

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

36.

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

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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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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

39.

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

40.

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

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

Augustine, St.

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

Proverb, French

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