Motivational Quotes

Beauty

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gibran, Kahlil

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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?

Jean Kerr

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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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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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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

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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

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Proverb, French

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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Bejar, Hada

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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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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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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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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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 a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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)

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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 a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

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

Sappho

35.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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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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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

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.